A Complete Guide to Common Weigela Seed Varieties and Propagation Methods

Weigela is also often called five-color crabapple; its flower colors are vivid and highly variable, and it has a great many varieties. Its flowering period can last from spring all the way into summer, so it is planted in parks, gardens, and beside lakeshores. It carries the beautiful meanings of a bright future, brilliance, and beauty. So what common varieties of weigela seeds are there? What propagation methods are there? Let's take a look together below.

1. What common varieties of weigela seeds are there?

1. Weigela florida 'Brigela'

The flowers are light pink, the leaves are relatively small, ovate or broadly elliptical, with obvious veins and sparse sharp teeth along the margins. The flowers of Weigela florida 'Brigela' are borne in the leaf axils of the previous year's branches; they are white when they first open, then turn pale red, with a flowering period from May to June.

2. Variegated weigela

The leaf margins are creamy yellow or white, the leaves are opposite, long ovate, with acuminate tips. The cyme is borne at the top of the branches, the calyx tube is green, the corolla is trumpet-shaped, and the flower color gradually changes from white to pink. Because the flowers open at different times, some are white and some are red, making the whole plant display two colors of flowers, which look especially brilliant and colorful against the backdrop of the variegated leaves.

3. Weigela florida var. venusta

Both sides of the leaves have soft hairs; the calyx lobes are broad, connate at the base, and very hairy; the corolla is narrowly bell-shaped, suddenly narrowing below the middle, hairy on the outside, and the flowers are rose red or pink, with a yellow throat. Three to five flowers are borne on short lateral branchlets, and it flowers early, blooming in April to May.

4. Weigela florida 'Red Prince'

The plant is relatively short, 1 m to 2 m tall, with a crown width of 1.4 m. The young branches are pale red, the old branches are grayish brown, and the leaves are golden yellow throughout the growing season. Weigela florida 'Red Prince' blooms in early summer, with a flowering period that continues from April to October, and the branches spread out in an arching form. The corolla is funnel-shaped, the flowers are dense, and the corolla is carmine red, bright and pleasing to the eye.

5. White-flowered weigela

The flowers are white, nearly white, and slightly fragrant. Color-changing weigela: the flowers are white-green when they first open, then turn red. Purple-leaved weigela: the leaves have a purple tinge, and the flowers are purple-pink, etc. Variegated-leaved weigela: the leaves have white spots.

2. What propagation methods are there for weigela?

1. Cuttage

In summer, cut semi-lignified branches of the current year as cuttings, insert half of them into the soil, then water thoroughly, and afterward just keep the soil moist regularly. In the plum rain season, softwood cuttings can be used, and the survival rate is also high. In March of spring or in the plum rain season, hardwood cuttings or softwood cuttings can be used, that is, cut the cuttings into 15 cm lengths and insert them into a sterilized seedbed with a shade shed; or after leaf fall, take 1-year-old branches and insert them in the open field, and they all root easily.

2. Layering

Layering can be done throughout the year, usually by selecting lower branches and pressing them down after flowering. The lower branches of weigela tend to be prostrate, so in the growing season they can be pressed into the soil for layering propagation, and the nodes root and survive very easily.

3. Division

Division is carried out in early spring and in autumn and winter. It is mostly done around the time of spring budding together with transplanting; dig out the whole plant, divide it into several clumps, and plant them separately. In February to March of spring, use 1-year-old mature branches and insert them in the open field, or in June to July use semi-lignified softwood and insert them under a shade shed. Layering can be done in June. Seedlings transplanted in spring and autumn must be kept with native soil, and in summer must be kept with a soil ball. After planting, apply well-rotted compost once each year in early spring, and prune away aging branches.

4. Sowing

This is done in early to mid-April. After sowing, water by the soaking method; do not use a watering can to spray water on the soil surface, so as not to wash the seeds out of the soil surface. Seedlings emerge about 15 days after sowing. However, the sowing method has a relatively long growth period, so it is generally not used for small-scale propagation.

The above is an introduction to weigela. Weigela has dense branches and leaves and brilliant flower colors, and its flowering period can last more than two months. It is very suitable for group planting at courtyard wall corners and beside lakeshores. It can also be used as a flower hedge or in grouped plantings at the edge of groves, and as a dot planting on rockeries and slopes.

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