Dwarf Weigela Wine And Roses

It can also be enjoyed as an accent plant or used for a dramatic mass planting. Wine and roses weigela is a hybrid of the old fashioned weigela shrub known as weigela florida.

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Dwarf weigela wine and roses

Weigela florida wine roses is a striking deciduous shrub noted for its foliage of narrowly ovate shiny dark purple leaves all season long. Still other types of weigela bushes have golden or lime colored foliage. Consider using it instead of crimson pygmy barberry.

From the breeder of wine roses weigela comes dwarf midnight wine weigela. There are three new purple foliage weigela on the market developed by herman geers in holland. Up to 3 ft.

Ideal for the front of the border or for edging the perennial bed. The foliage of wine and roses alexandra is burgundy purple. Weigela wine and roses is a deciduous shrub that can grow to between 4 and 6 feet tall and is hardy in the usda zones 5 to 8.

It reaches a height of 6 feet and a width of 5 feet. All are hardy to zone 4. It may produce a light crop of pink flowers in spring.

This tidy mound of dark burgundy purple leaves can be used as an accent plant or a dramatic mass planting. Wine and roses aka alexandra is the tallest of the three hybrids reaching to 4 feet. Midnight wine elvera also has burgundy purple leaves.

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