Weigela florida 'Sonic Bloom Wine'

🌿 General Description

• Type: Deciduous shrub
• Habit: Bushy, rounded, quite dense
• Foliage:
  • Dark purple / burgundy
  • Maintains beautiful color all season

👉 Very "modern design" look compared to classic green weigelas.

📏 Height and Width

• Height: 1.2 to 1.5 m (4 to 5 feet)
• Width: 1 to 1.2 m (3 to 4 feet)

👉 Perfect size:

• not too large
• not too small

🌸 Flowering (MAJOR highlight)

• Color: Bright pink to magenta
• Type: Bell-shaped flowers (typical weigela)
• Special feature:
  👉 Continuous flowering from spring until frost
• Can flower in multiple waves (3+ cycles)

💡 Unlike old weigelas:
➡️ not just 2 weeks → all season

☀️ Exposure

• Full sun ideal
• Minimum 4–6 hours of sun to perform well

👉 More sun = more flowers + darker foliage

🌱 Soil

• Well-drained
• Tolerates:
  • clay
  • average soils
• Quite tolerant in general

❄️ Hardiness

• Zone 4 to 8
  👉 Perfect for Quebec with no stress

💧 Maintenance

• Very easy
• Pruning:
  • After the first flowering or light pruning in spring
• No deadheading required
  👉 Flowers on new and old wood → very forgiving

🛡️ Resistance

• Deer resistant (relative)
• Good disease resistance
• Attracts:
  • hummingbirds
  • pollinators