Q: I'd like to start a new variegated weigela from a cutting off of a friend's plant. What's the best way to take a piece for regrowing? Would the same principle be valid for all deciduous bushes, ...

I have a couple of weigelas in my landscape, but my all-time favorite is my variegated one. This shrub has anchored the corner of my house for many years, blooming profusely every year. Their light ...

Q: I bought a “My Monet” weigela several years ago. It looks healthy and is growing well. I bought it for the variegated leaves, but for the past couple of years, the new growth is just plain green.

Description: A deciduous, spring-blooming shrub with trumpet-shaped flowers, Weigela florida is a common garden species native to Japan. This member of the honeysuckle family spreads 6 to 9 feet high ...

There are many old-fashioned plants that have been garden staples for generations and continue to be good choices for our gardens today. Spiraea, hydrangeas, scented geraniums, weigela, abelia, crape ...

Hybridizers have worked diligently in the last decade to bring gardeners many new cultivars of weigela, improving on their flowers, foliage and habit. In the past, a glorious display of spring flowers ...

WEIGELA IS A hardy, drought-tolerant, low-maintenance shrub famous for prolific displays of tubular, inch-long flowers in spring. Despite the fact that the blossoms on these members of the honeysuckle ...

When in full flower, weigela looks like a giant iced cake, with frothy masses of creamy variegated leaves and soft pink flowers. It is just coming into flower now and it will be on show for a couple ...

What: Weigela florida “Variegata” is an old-fashioned garden shrub that has proven its worth for decades as an excellent landscaping choice. The bare branches emerge with apple green leaves edged in ...

When I look around my garden, I sometimes overlook those shrubs that play such a huge roll in making my garden what it is today. The same goes when I look at old photos of my garden. I will see an old ...

Lots of people love variegated plants, and others hate them, but they have a place in the garden, especially entering the dull months. Even one or two splash-leaved plants can brighten the garden. In ...

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