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Plant: Pink Poppet - Weigela
Weigela · Weigela florida 'Pink Poppet'
Size: 3 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
A dwarf deciduous weigela that keeps a low mounded frame and carries soft pink trumpet shaped flowers in late spring with a second flush in late summer. The opposite, serrate mid green leaves are unremarkable but the plant is compact enough for city gardens, cottage borders, patios and coastal sites. It grows in full sun or partial shade on any moist but well drained fertile soil, tolerates deer, salt and air pollution, and asks for little beyond a light prune after flowering. Butterflies and hummingbirds work the blooms.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 8 ft tall and 8 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A dwarf deciduous weigela that keeps a low mounded frame and carries soft pink trumpet shaped flowers in late spring with a second flush in late summer. The opposite, serrate mid green leaves are unremarkable but the plant is compact enough for city gardens, cottage borders, patios and coastal sites. It grows in full sun or partial shade on any moist but well drained fertile soil, tolerates deer, salt and air pollution, and asks for little beyond a light prune after flowering. Butterflies and hummingbirds work the blooms.
- Flowers
- Soft pink trumpet shaped flowers in late spring with a second flush in late summer.
- Foliage
- Leaves are opposite, simple, ovate-oblong to obovate, acuminate and serrate.
- Fruit
- Inconspicuous fruit, a 2-valved oblong capsule.
- Bark & stems
- Stem is gray-brown, encircled by stipular scars, with large circular lenticels and a vertical row of white pubescence on new growth.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Pruning
- Prune lightly every year after flowering to keep it from becoming leggy.
- Native range
- Northern China, Korea and Japan
