How to plant and care for Weigela (Florida Variegata)

Weigela florida 'Variegata'

🌸 Flower 🔁 Perennial

Cream-edged leaves and masses of soft pink trumpet flowers in May and June. Easy, compact and hardy.

When to plant and care for it

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Flowers

Prune

Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.

On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 1.5 m apart, and firm in.
0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.

May
In Flower
Pink trumpets in flower.
June
Prune
Straight after flowering, cut the stems that flowered back to strong young shoots, and remove a few old stems at the base.