| Description | Minuet Weigela (Weigela florida) is one of the smaller more compact Weigela. Has purple tinged dark green foliage along with ruby red trumpet shaped flowers. |
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| Pronunciation | (wi-GEE-la)(FLOR-i-dah) |
| Plant Type | Shrubs Deciduous, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | free flowering with ruby red flowers, around mid June |
| Leaves | purple tinged and dark green |
| Dimensions | 3 feet tall by 3 feet spread. |
| Maintenance | Some Weigela will have some winter kill on their branches and need some clean-up in the spring. Prune after the plants are done blooming. At condo project I worked at the Weigela were pruned by the lawn service in the fall, cutting off the outer more plentiful flower buds. The only flowers appearing on these plants next year were from the flower buds that were inside of the plant and were missed by the pruning process. |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Cultivar Origin | Ottawa Research Station, Ontario Canada |
| Author's Notes | I have planted many of this Weigela on landscape jobs. Proven to be very hardy and has a compact growth form. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), Johnson's Nursery Catalog, Menominee Falls, Wisconsin |
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