Plant Guide

Brand:  Proven Winners

Description:

This tidy, bun shaped selection is grown primarily for its glossy, blazing orange and red summer-autumn foliage; rose pink trumpet-shaped flowers appear in spring; ideal for the front of borders

Ornamental Features

Midnight Sun® Reblooming Weigela features dainty clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers along the branches in late spring, which emerge from distinctive red flower buds. It has attractive orange-variegated brick red foliage with hints of chartreuse which emerges light green in spring. The pointy leaves are highly ornamental and turn outstanding shades of burgundy, orange and plum purple in the fall.

Landscape Attributes

Midnight Sun® Reblooming Weigela is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a mounded form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage.

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. It is a good choice for attracting hummingbirds to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Midnight Sun® Reblooming Weigela is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Border Edging
• General Garden Use
• Container Planting

Planting & Growing

Midnight Sun® Reblooming Weigela will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 inches. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. This plant will benefit from an application of bonemeal and/or mycorrhizal fertilizer at the time of planting. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

Midnight Sun® Reblooming Weigela makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape, but it is also well-suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers and foliage against which the thriller plants stand out. Note that when grown in a container, it may not perform exactly as indicated on the tag - this is to be expected. Also note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.