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MIDNIGHT WINE SHINE® WEIGELA (pg

MIDNIGHT WINE SHINE WEIGELA

Weigela

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Weigela florida 'SMNWFMS'

MATURE HEIGHT: 1 - 1.5 Feet (0.3 m) MATURE SPREAD: 2 - 3 Feet (0.9 m) FLOWER COLOUR: Ruby red EXPOSURE / HARDINESS:  Zone 3/4 New listing for 2022. This new selection features darker, shinier leaves which make a huge impact in the landscape from spring to fall. Midnight Wine Shine also displays much better hardiness when it comes to tip die-back. USPP 26,922, CPBR 5,944

MINUET WEIGELA Weigela florida 'Minuet'

MATURE HEIGHT: 2 - 3 Feet (0.9 m) MATURE SPREAD: 2 - 3 Feet (0.9 m) FLOWER COLOUR: Ruby red EXPOSURE / HARDINESS:  Zone 3 This dwarf cultivar blooms freely producing slightly fragrant flowers. The tube and corolla is ruby red, petal lobes are purple, throat is yellow.

MY MONET® PURPLE EFFECT WEIGELA Weigela florida 'Verweig8'

Midnight Wine Shine Weigela Midnight Wine Shine Weigela

MATURE HEIGHT: 18 - 30 Inches (1 m) MATURE SPREAD: 18 - 30 Inches (1 m) FOLIAGE COLOUR: Variegated EXPOSURE / HARDINESS:  Zone 3/4 A compact weigela with purple-toned, variegated foliage and pink flowers. Better adapted to prairie conditions. A Proven Winners Introduction. USPPAF

RED PRINCE WEIGELA Weigela florida 'Red Prince'

MATURE HEIGHT: 3 - 4 Feet (1.25 m) MATURE SPREAD: 3 - 4 Feet (1.25 m) FLOWER COLOUR: Brilliant red EXPOSURE / HARDINESS:  Zone 3 This showy shrub produces a mass of tubular-shaped flowers that are a deep-red in colour. The upright and slender stems are covered by rich green leaves creating a loose habit.

RUMBA WEIGELA Weigela florida 'Rumba'

MATURE HEIGHT: 3 Feet (0.9 m) MATURE SPREAD: 3 Feet (0.9 m) FLOWER COLOUR: Dark red EXPOSURE / HARDINESS:  Zone 3 A vigorous, compact shrub that produces dark red flowers with a yellow throat from June to September. The foliage is an attractive green tinged with a bronzy-purple colour.

SPILLED WINE® WEIGELA Weigela florida 'Bokraspiwi'

MATURE HEIGHT: 2 - 3 Feet (0.9 m) MATURE SPREAD: 3 - 4 Feet (1.25 m) FOLIAGE COLOUR: Pink-magenta EXPOSURE / HARDINESS:  Zone 3 Spilled Wine has dark red, wavy leaves and magenta-pink spring flowers. Its broad, spreading habit makes this shrub an excellent border plant. USPP #23,781 CPBR #4,655

Red Prince Weigela Red Prince Weigela

TANGO WEIGELA Weigela florida 'Tango'

MATURE HEIGHT: 2 - 3 Feet (0.9 m) MATURE SPREAD: 2 - 3 Feet (0.9 m) FOLIAGE COLOUR: Purple-green EXPOSURE / HARDINESS:  Zone 3/4 This shrub has a compact rounded growth habit and is covered with a profusion of pink flowers in the spring. The foliage is a purplish-green and turns a purple colour in fall.

GROWING TIPS FOR WEIGELA AND OTHER GROWING TIPS FOR WEIGELA AND OTHER LESS HARDY “COLLECTOR” PLANTS LESS HARDY “COLLECTOR” PLANTS

 Provide the optimal planting site in the landscape with good summer heat accumulation and shelter from winter winds

 Limit fertilizer and moisture late in the growing season which can stimulate new growth and reduce acclimation

 Apply wood chips to protect roots and crown from winter cold in the absence of snow cover

 Prune any dead wood in spring and promote new growth

My Monet My Monet®® Purple Effect Weigela Purple Effect Weigela

SUMMER FOLIAGE COLOUR Golden:  Morden Golden Glow Elder  Golden Mockorange  Dart’s Gold Ninebark  Festivus Gold Ninebark  Tiger Eyes® Sumac  Sem False Spirea  Dakota Goldcharm Spirea  Double Play® Gold Spirea Variegated:  Rose Glow Barberry  Golden Variegated Dogwood  Ivory Halo® Dogwood  Cool Splash® Diervilla  My Monet® Weigela Red / Purple:  Concorde Barberry  Bailey Purple Leaf Hazelnut  Center Glow® Ninebark  Diabolo Ninebark  Royal Jubilee® Ninebark  Summer Wine® Ninebark  Tiny Wine® Ninebark FALL COLOUR Orange-red foliage:  Low Scape Mound® Chokeberry  Jade Carousel Barberry  Hedge Cotoneaster  Goldflame Spirea  Tiger Eyes® Sumac Red foliage:  Atomic® Amur Maple  Little Rebel® Dogwood  Dwarf Winged Euonymus  Compact American Cranberry  Alaska & Wentworth Cranberry Colourful Fall Fruit:  Barberry  Redosier Dogwood  Turkestan Burning Bush  Winterberry  Autumn Jazz Viburnum  Highbush Cranberry  Nannyberry

FLOWER COLOUR

White:  Annabelle Hydrangea  Limelight Prime® Hydrangea  Mock Orange  Lotus Moon® Pearlbush  Morden Snow Potentilla  Fairy Queen Spirea  Highbush Cranberry  Snowball Viburnum Pink:  Endless Summer® Hydrangea  Pink Beauty® Potentilla  Double Flowering Plum  Pinktini® Preston Lilac  Little Lady® Hybrid Lilac Yellow:  Common / Pygmy Caragana  Northern Gold Forsythia  Dwarf Broom  Goldfinger Potentilla  Golden Currant Orange:  Mandarin Tango® Potentilla  Marmalade® Potentilla Red:  Red Prince Weigela SHRUBS FOR WILDLIFE Fruit Attracts Song Birds:  Low Scape & Viking Chokeberry  Hedge Cotoneaster  Redosier Dogwood  Honeysuckle  Nanking Cherry  Golden Elder  Silver Buffaloberry  Autumn Jazz Viburnum  Highbush Cranberry  Nannyberry

Flowers Attract Hummingbirds:  most Lilacs  Midnight Wine Shine Weigela  Minuet Weigela  My Monet® Purple Effect Weigela  Red Prince Weigela  Rumba Weigela  Spilled Wine® Weigela  Tango Weigela