Once you have a weigela, you often want more of these lush flowering and easy-care shrubs. If you don't want different types or colors, you can easily grow the new weigela yourself.
Weigela are best propagated by cuttings
The sowing of weigela
You can propagate weigela by seed, although it will take some time before you get flowering shrubs. Cultivation under glass is recommended, i.e. in a cold frame or in a greenhouse, alternatively also indoors.
Propagate Weigela by cuttings
Propagation from cuttings is less time consuming and usually quite successful. Cut off slightly woody but non-flowering shoots about 15 to 20 centimeters long during the growing season (between the first budding in spring and the shedding of the leaves in autumn), ideally in midsummer. Remove both the soft, unwoody shoot tips and the lower leaves.
Put the trimmed shoots in lean garden soil, a mixture of peat and sand or potting soil, a maximum of two pairs of leaves should look out. Press the substrate well and water the cuttings. Now keep the substrate evenly moist in a warm and sheltered place in the semi-shade. This can be done outside in the garden in summer, but later in a temperature-controlled room is better.
care for young plants
Water the cuttings and later the young plants regularly, but without standing water, otherwise the delicate roots will rot. However, you must not fertilize the plants. The young weigela should spend the first winter at a comfortable temperature of about + 10 °C to + 15 °C, later they are hardy.
You can transplant your weigela into the garden in the spring. They should now have strong roots and some new shoots. Wait until about May before transplanting, in a rough area and/or with slightly weaker plants you can also wait until after the ice saints. Then put the young Weigelia in a sunny spot.
The essentials in brief:
- Sowing possible, but tedious
- easy propagation by cuttings
- possible from spring to autumn
- best chance of success in midsummer
- Cut slightly woody, non-flowering shoots
- about 15 to 20 cm long
- Cut off the soft upper part of the shoots
- Remove leaves at the bottom
- stick in garden or potting soil so deep that a maximum of 2 pairs of leaves protrude
- Press the soil down well
- water cuttings
- keep evenly moist (and warm).
- hibernate in the first winter at about + 10 °C to + 15 °C
- plant in their final location next spring
tips
The easiest way to propagate is by cuttings. In this way you get a shrub that is genetically identical to the mother plant.