This hairy shrub has multiple uprights slender stems with arching branches that form a compact rounded crown. It has mid green elliptical leaves and the narrow funnel-shaped crimson flowers appear in a small cluster from late spring to early summer.

Hardiness zones 6 to 9 

Weigela floribunda is naturally found in Japan from Honshu to Shikoku and grows on the coast and in the lower mountains amongst woodlands at an altitude from 150 m to 1700 m (5,100 ft).

It prefers an open sunny to partially shaded protected position and grows in most well-drained fertile moist soils that are tending acidic with a pH 5.6-7.5 and is frost and mildly drought tolerant.

The Crimson Weigela is grown for its flowers and its bushy habit. It is grown as a specimen in parks and gardens or planted along borders for summer screening. It is suitable to a coastal and low mountain regions establishing in 3-4 years and is moderately long lived. ID 3498

Weigela (VIE-ge-la) floribunda (FLOH-ree-BUN-dah)

Caprifoliaceae (cap-ree-foh-lee-AY-see-ee)