It is a good choice for attracting hummingbirds to your yard. This shrub will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage. Midnight Wine® Weigela is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a mounded form. The pointy leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding burgundy in the fall. It has attractive deep purple deciduous foliage. Midnight Wine® Weigela features showy clusters of rose trumpet-shaped flowers with buttery yellow anthers along the branches in late spring. Here's one of the smallest weigelas you've ever seen forms a low mounded shrub with rich burgundy-purple foliage all season long, deep pink trumpet-shaped flowers attract hummingbirds in spring very showy, ideal for the mixed garden border Bienenweide 220 Trachtpflanzen erkennen und bewerten. ^ Pritsch, Günter (13 September 2018).^ "RHS Plant selector Weigela 'Praecox Variegata' (v) AGM/RHS Gardening".^ "RHS Plant selector Weigela 'Florida Variegata' (v) AGM/RHS Gardening".^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Plants of the World online.^ "Weigela Sichtungsgarten" (in German).^ Mark Nesbitt, The Cultural History of Plants, 2005:284 Ran Levy-Yamamori, Ran Levy, Gerard Taaffe, Garden plants of Japan, 2004, s.v.^ Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by Else Marie Friis, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24:3, 1985.^ a b c "Sheffield Botanical Gardens Weigela".Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. ^ All of the species listed in the 'Selected species' section are accepted by The Plant List, but most are still under review, and therefore subject to changes in status.Type Specimens: T: Weigela japonica Thunb. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 1: 137, pl. ^ The genus Weigela and the type W. japonica were originally described and published in Kongl.Weigela is sometimes used in bonsai tree cultivation, where its flowers and bark are highly valued. It is attractive to hummingbirds and bees. It grows to a height and width of up to 1.5–1.8 m (5–6 ft) in appropriate conditions, and is thus more compact than the normal Weigela florida, which makes it a more versatile shrub. It is a hardy plant, easy to grow and maintain. 'Pink Princess' is a popular cultivar of Weigela, a shrub native to northern China, Korea, and Japan, that flowers profusely. The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit: Several of the species are very popular ornamental shrubs in gardens, although species have been mostly superseded by hybrids (crosses between W. Weigela florida 'Wine & Roses': included in the periphery are dwarf Indian hawthorn, English lavender, and sword fern Weigela species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including brown-tail. The German Weigela national collection, Sichtungsgarten Weigela, is in Buckow, Maerkische-Schweiz.
The British Weigela national collection is held at Sheffield Botanical Gardens along with the national collection of the closely related genus Diervilla. Following the opening of Japan to Westerners, several Weigela species and garden versions were "discovered" by European plant-hunters in the 1850s and 1860s, though they were already well known in Japan. The first species to be collected for Western gardens, Weigela florida, distributed in North China, Korea and Manchuria, was found by Robert Fortune and imported to England in 1845. Several fossil seeds and fruit fragments of † Weigela srodoniowae have been described from middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark. The fruit is a dry capsule containing numerous small winged seeds. The flowers are 2–4 cm long, with a five-lobed white, pink, or red (rarely yellow) corolla, produced in small corymbs of several together in early summer. The leaves are 5–15 cm long, ovate-oblong with an acuminate tip, and with a serrated margin.
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