Weigela carnival: description of the plant and cultivation features
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Weigela Carnival is one of the most common varieties of blooming weigela. Belongs to the honeysuckle family. This plant is deciduous, for the winter all the foliage falls off it.
Weigela Carnival: description
Photo Weigela Carnival
Weigela was first discovered in East Asia. She got into European gardens relatively recently, about 150 years ago.
Weigela Carnival is considered to be the most beautiful of all flowering shrubs. The rich green foliage is a kind of background on which the bunches of inflorescences are located. All the eyes of the guests of the site are riveted to themselves by red, bright yellow and pure white flowers.
This deciduous shrub has about 15 varieties. The most popular among hybrids is the Weigela carnival due to the unusual color of the buds. One of the features of this plant is that it blooms 2 times per season (late summer, late autumn), but the second time the buds will be smaller.
This variety was introduced to Europe one of the first. Weigela Carnival looks like this: quite large. The crown diameter can reach 3.5 meters and the height is approximately 3 meters. Leaves are bright green, elongated, with a pointed tip. Shoots at a young age are erect, eventually fall to the ground. Thus, under the bush, a semblance of an arch is obtained.
The blooming weigela variety Carnival has the highest frost resistance among other species. It may freeze slightly if grown in the north of our country, where winters are quite cold. In this weigela, the inflorescences are its "highlight": they can be red, pale pink and white.
Variety preferences
Weigela Carnival: bush photo
This variety is very fond of light, therefore, in a place with a lot of natural light, it appears in all its glory. But she does not prefer shaded areas. There it grows worse and blooms much weaker.
Do not plant this shrub in open areas. Strong winds can easily tear off leaves and flowers.
Poorly affects the condition of the roots and the abundance of flowering stagnation of moisture. Therefore, areas located, for example, in the lowlands, are also not suitable for planting Carnival weigels.
The land for the carnival weigela shrub needs fertile, for this you need to feed it with minerals and humus. Weigela will love this.
If the winter was little snow, and there was very little rain in the spring, then this plant will need abundant and regular watering.
After the flowering period, once every 2 years, the weigel needs to be trimmed to give the correct and desired shape. And every spring, all frozen branches must be removed.
Basically, the weigela variety Carnival calmly survives the winter. Only in the northern regions or with a small amount of snow does it need a good cover with polyethylene or film.
Such a bright, beautiful and attractive weigela carnival will be able to decorate any site, bring originality to the landscape design, and also please you and your guests with its flowering.
