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Common Name: Weigela
Scientific Name: Weigela florida
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Highway 108
Columbus, North Carolina
April 21, 2002
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Valuable for lavish, attractive springtime display of funnel-shaped, 1-inch-long flowers. Fast-growing shrub to 6 - 10 feet tall, 9 - 12 feet wide, with branches often arching to the ground. Leaves 2 - 4 1/2 inches long, half as wide. Pink to rose red flowers are borne singly or in short clusters all along previous season's shoots. After flowering, cut back branches that have bloomed. Thin new suckers to a few of the most vigorous. A simpler method is to cut back entire plant about halfway every other year, just after blooms fade. New growth that follows will provide plenty of flowers the next spring. Use for flower or mixed shrub borders, as summer screen. [Bender, Steve, Southern Living Garden Book, The. Oxmoor House, Inc., Book Division of Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, 1998]
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Genus Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z