Plant Encyclopedia

Brand:  Proven Winners

Description:

A dazzling spring-flowering shrub, featuring trumpet-shaped flowers of white, pink, and red, held over handsome, dark green glossy foliage; attracts hummingbirds; a relatively compact shrub, ideal for garden detail use; needs full sun

Ornamental Features

Czechmark Trilogy® Weigela features showy clusters of white trumpet-shaped flowers with pink overtones and red throats along the branches from late spring to early summer. It has attractive dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy pointy leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding brick red in the fall.

Landscape Attributes

Czechmark Trilogy® Weigela is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

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.

Czechmark Trilogy® Weigela is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Czechmark Trilogy® Weigela will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 4 feet apart. 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. 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.