Plant: Rubidor - Weigela
Weigela · Weigela florida 'Olympiade'
Size: 1 gal
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More about this plant
A deciduous weigela grown for shade brightening yellow green to gold foliage that holds its color through summer, sometimes with central green streaks and a narrow red leaf margin. Carmine red trumpet shaped flowers open in spring with occasional rebloom in fall and hold their color longer than most weigelas. It reaches roughly five to seven feet tall and about five feet wide in sun to light shade on clay, loam or sand at any pH. Hummingbirds and butterflies visit the flowers. Use it as a bright background plant, an accent or a loose screen.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 7 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A deciduous weigela grown for shade brightening yellow green to gold foliage that holds its color through summer, sometimes with central green streaks and a narrow red leaf margin. Carmine red trumpet shaped flowers open in spring with occasional rebloom in fall and hold their color longer than most weigelas. It reaches roughly five to seven feet tall and about five feet wide in sun to light shade on clay, loam or sand at any pH. Hummingbirds and butterflies visit the flowers. Use it as a bright background plant, an accent or a loose screen.
- Flowers
- Carmine red trumpet-shaped flowers open in spring with occasional rebloom in fall.
- Foliage
- Yellow green leaves brighten to chartreuse and gold through summer, sometimes with central green streaks and a very narrow red margin.
- 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
- Blooms mainly on the previous year's wood, so prune just after flowering, cutting flowering branches back by a third.
- Native range
- Northern China, Korea and Japan
