Weigela All Summer Red
Overview
The Weigela All Summer Red is an exceptional deciduous shrub that lives up to its name by producing vibrant red flowers continuously from late spring through to autumn. This prolific bloomer combines rich burgundy-red foliage with masses of deep red tubular flowers, creating a stunning monochromatic display that provides months of garden colour. Perfect for gardeners who want reliable, long-lasting impact with minimal fuss, this hardy shrub delivers outstanding performance in a compact, manageable size.
Key Features
Extended Flowering Period: Unlike traditional weigelas that bloom once, All Summer Red produces waves of deep red flowers from May through to the first frosts, ensuring continuous colour for up to five months.
Rich Foliage Colour: The burgundy-red to bronze-green leaves provide an attractive backdrop that complements the red flowers perfectly, creating a cohesive colour scheme that works beautifully in any garden setting.
Compact Habit: Grows to approximately 0-5 - 0.1 metres in height and spread, making it ideal for smaller gardens, front borders, or container growing without overwhelming neighbouring plants.
Pollinator Magnet: The continuous succession of nectar-rich flowers attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds throughout the growing season, making it excellent for wildlife-friendly gardens.
Growing Conditions
Position: Thrives in full sun to partial shade. Full sun produces the best flower production and foliage colour, though it tolerates light shade well, particularly in hotter climates.
Soil Requirements: Adaptable to most well-draining soil types from slightly acidic to neutral pH. Prefers consistently moist but not waterlogged conditions. Tolerates clay soils provided drainage is adequate.
Hardiness: Fully hardy throughout the UK
Planting and Care
When to Plant: Best planted in autumn or early spring when soil conditions allow and temperatures are moderate.
Spacing: Allow 1.2-1.5 metres between plants to accommodate mature spread and ensure good air circulation for continued flowering.
Watering: Water regularly during the first growing season to establish strong roots. Once established, shows good drought tolerance but benefits from consistent moisture for optimal flower production.
Feeding: Apply a balanced general-purpose fertiliser in early spring to support the extended flowering period. A mid-summer feed can help sustain flower production through autumn.
Pruning: Light pruning can be done throughout the growing season to remove spent flowers and encourage continued blooming. Major pruning should be done in late winter or very early spring before new growth begins.
Garden Uses
Continuous Colour Borders: Ideal for borders where sustained colour is needed, particularly effective when planted in groups of three or five for maximum impact.
Container Gardening: Perfect size for large containers on patios, decks, or in courtyard gardens where the extended flowering period can be appreciated up close.
Low Maintenance Gardens: Excellent choice for busy gardeners who want reliable colour without constant deadheading or maintenance.
Mixed Plantings: Works beautifully with other long-flowering plants such as hardy geraniums, salvias, or roses to create borders with extended seasonal interest.
Companion Plants
Pairs wonderfully with plants that complement red tones: silver-leafed artemisia or lamb's ear, purple-leafed heuchera, or golden-leafed spirea. White or cream flowers such as white roses, astilbe, or Japanese anemone create striking contrasts. For a hot colour scheme, combine with orange marigolds or yellow rudbeckia.
Common Issues and Solutions
Deadheading: While not strictly necessary due to the self-cleaning nature of the flowers, occasional removal of spent blooms can encourage even more flowers.
Summer Stress: In extremely hot, dry conditions, provide consistent watering and consider afternoon shade to maintain flower quality.
Aphids: Monitor for aphids on new growth, particularly during peak growing season. Natural predators usually provide adequate control, or use insecticidal soap if needed.
Seasonal Performance
Late Spring: Initial flush of deep red flowers begins, accompanied by emerging burgundy foliage.
Summer: Continuous flowering continues with waves of blooms supported by rich-coloured foliage throughout the warmest months.
Early Autumn: Flowering continues until first frost, often with intensified foliage colours as temperatures cool.
Winter: Reveals attractive branching structure after leaf drop, providing subtle winter interest.
Care Tips for Maximum Performance
Consistent Moisture: Maintain even soil moisture during the growing season for best flower production, but avoid waterlogged conditions.
Mulching: Apply a layer of organic mulch around the base to retain moisture and suppress weeds, which helps sustain the long flowering period.
Feeding Schedule: A spring application of balanced fertiliser followed by a mid-summer boost helps support the extended blooming period.
Why Choose Weigela All Summer Red?
This variety offers exceptional value for gardeners seeking long-lasting colour with minimal maintenance. The extended flowering period means you get months of impact from a single plant, making it far more cost-effective than annuals that need replacing. Its compact size suits modern smaller gardens, whilst the continuous display of red flowers provides reliable backbone colour for any planting scheme. The combination of attractive foliage and non-stop flowering makes it an ideal choice for gardeners who want maximum impact with minimal effort.
Buying Shrubs from Jacksons Nurseries
At Jacksons Nurseries we sell a variety of shrubs both evergreen and deciduous with a variety of flowering times throughout the year. At certain times of the year our shrubs you buy from us may not look like the images shown on our website when deciduous leaves have fallen, the shrub has finished flowering or has been trimmed back.
Some leaves on evergreen shrubs can be damaged in winter by frost or harsh winds but in spring new leaves will readily replace those damaged. This is quite normal on many evergreen varieties and is preferable to plants grown with excessive protection that show cold shock once planted out and establish less satisfactory initially.
Availability: Stock availability figures are provided as a guide only. There is a delay between orders being placed and the plants being gathered by our pulling team. During this time it may be possible for a member of the public to purchase these plants from our Garden Centre, while this is rare it is a possibility and we will notify you of any problems as soon as possible. This figure may also include plants that have not yet be flagged as unsaleable.
Pre-order: Pre-order times are given as a guide only and may vary dependent on the growing season. Orders containing Pre-ordered products will be shipped as a single order when all items become available. Large orders may be part shipped, please contact us on 01782 502741 or email sales@jacksonsnurseries.co.uk.
* Please Note: Shrubs in 20 litre pots and above might require a pallet delivery starting at £79.99 per pallet. Depending on the exact pot size and height it may be possible to get approximately 5 plants per pallet at no extra cost. The maximum height we can dispatch on a pallet is 2.0m, this includes the height of the pallet and pot.
Shrubs are deciduous or evergreen woody plants, and often provide fragrant flowers, berries and foliage. They are good for structural framework, and they can provide a wonderful shelter and food source for wildlife.
Planting and Conditions
Container grown shrubs can be grown at any time of year. It is a little known fact that shrubs planted in the autumn and winter will be easier to look after than those planted in the spring and summer, because they will have time to establish and become hardy in the cooler months.
Plant the shrub at the same depth as it was in its original pot. Planting too deeply can result in root and stem rot.
One of the biggest causes of death in new shrubs is drought stress, so keep it well watered until it’s established.
Make sure you loosen the soil prior to planting. Most shrubs are tolerant of most soil types as long as it is fairly well draining.
Most shrubs will grow happily in containers, but they will be much more demanding on feeding and watering than shrubs in the ground would be. They will also need potting on every couple of years so that they don’t suffocate or become stunted in their pot.
Aftercare and Pruning
Once established, shrubs generally do not require much water. However, at first they need careful, frequent watering and should not be left to dry out.
Shrubs in the ground are generally not demanding and in most cases, annual feeding with general purpose fertilizer will suffice. Shrubs in containers may need more feeding; usually from early spring until late summer.
Shrubs also benefit from mulching in order to supress weeds, conserve moisture and provide vital nutrients. Mulch also greatly improves soil conditions. Shrubs can be mulched in late winter, after fertiliser has been applied, but it can be mulched through autumn to late spring as long as the ground is damp.
All shrubs benefit from dead-heading once spent flowers become apparent. Rhododendrons and Lilac especially benefit from the removal of dead flowers.
Some shrubs may show signs of reverted growth or ‘sporting’. This is where random shoots of different leaves associated with the plant’s parentage begin to appear. Most commonly this is where plants with variegated leaves sprout pure green growths instead of variegated ones.
To control reversion, remove reverted shoots promptly to discourage them. Reverted shoots are usually much more vigorous than the variegated ones, and thus should be completely pruned out and cut back into wood containing variegated foliage.
Potential Issues
Although shrubs are usually very robust garden plants, they can sometimes start to decline with no apparent or obvious reason.
This will start with browning leaves, which could indicate plant stress due to lack of water or waterlogging, an establishment failure or, in the worst case scenario, honey fungus. Another cause of leaf browning is a high salt content in the soil. This could be a natural occurrence, especially if you live near the ocean, or it could be from over fertilisation.
To remedy a high salt content, cut back on fertiliser and step up your watering regime for the next few weeks. If you live by the ocean, this will be harder to remedy—but stepping up your watering will help to wash some of the salt away all the same.
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