Weigela florida 'Spilled Wine'

🌿 General Description

• Type: Deciduous shrub
• Habit: Spreading, low, cushion-shaped (wider than tall)
• Foliage:
  • Dark purple / burgundy
  • Slightly wavy (gives a more textured look)

👉 Visually: very rich, very "designer".

📏 Height and Width

• Height: 60 to 90 cm (2 to 3 feet)
• Width: 90 cm to 1.2 m (3 to 4 feet)

👉 Important:
➡️ Wider than tall = perfect for borders.

🌸 Flowering

• Color: Bright pink to magenta
• Period:
  • Spring (main)
  • • Light rebloom in summer/fall
• Flowers: Tubular (attracts hummingbirds)

👉 Like all Weigelas:

• Beautiful bloom, but the foliage remains the real highlight

☀️ Exposure

• Full sun ideal
• Tolerates partial shade

👉 More sun = darker color + more flowers

🌱 Soil

• Well-drained
• Tolerant (clay, loam, sand)

👉 Very easy to integrate into different projects.

❄️ Hardiness

• Zone 4 to 8
  👉 Perfect for Quebec without stress

💧 Maintenance

• Very easy
• Pruning:
  • After flowering
• Low water needs once established

👉 "Install and forget" plant.

🛡️ Resistance

• Deer resistant (relative)
• Attracts pollinators and hummingbirds
• Few diseases