Weigela

The dark-leafed weigela bushes are coated with mauve flowers, the peonies are spewing their amazing perfume, pink petals weigh down the 10-foot-tall beauty bush by the fence and the bearded irises with their unreal purple and blue blooms seem like visitors from another world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After that, I attacked a weigela bush that had a dense thicket of overlapping interior stems and a viburnum whose lower branches awkwardly brushed the ground. ❋ Bart Ziegler (2010)

The front of the bed could be edged with pulmonaria if the location has filtered sun, backed by several very compact, dwarf weigela, which have maroon foliage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The house was a vast 1950s waterfall brick affair hanging off a hill and it was overgrown with the kinds of shrubs that everyone had in the 1950s; weigela, hibiscus, plumbago. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Foster had been recalcitrant, pointing out that the forsythia would have to go and the weigela, and them there lilacs, but Gwenda had been adamant, and he was now almost enthusiastic about his task. ❋ Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (1976)

The weigela, forsythia, and spiraea are also excellent shrubs. ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

Then, crouching low, he ran from bush to bush and took his stand in front of a weigela bush that screened him from being seen by his family. ❋ Hazel Hutchins Wilson (1945)

This is true of most fruit-trees, and such shrubs as lilac, forsythia, tree peony, wistaria, some spireas and viburnums, weigela, deutzia. ❋ Unknown (1906)

For shrubs that bloom in early spring, like lilac (Syringa spp.), forsythia (Forsythia x intermedia) and weigela (Weigela florida), prune immediately after the blooms fade or you'll remove next year's flower buds. ❋ Unknown (2012)

• Reblooming weigela Sonic Bloom Pink grows to a manageable 5 feet tall and blooms from May until frost. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Cut back old-fashioned weigela - cut 1/5 of the older stems to the ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Early-spring bloomers like azaleas, forsythia, lilac, weigela, redbud, ornamental cherry and star magnolia are pruned later; prune them now and you remove flower buds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet early in the novel one of Mary Beth's large landscaping jobs ( "six tiers of shrubs, a small copse of flowering plum and pear, a long hedge of weigela") is vandalized, the plantings uprooted and carried off overnight. ❋ By MAGGIE SCARF (2010)

I thought this was because of overhanging foliage from a neighbour's garden, but now that has gone the weigela still does not thrive. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sickly sweet weigela is so easy it suffers my snobbery ❋ Unknown (2010)

Amid sun-lovers, I habitually tuck in my new finds such as a 'My Monet' weigela I picked up at a nursery this summer; a salvia I spotted at a local K-Mart; and the licorice mint. ❋ Unknown (2010)