Weigela My Monet
Overview
Weigela My Monet is a stunning dwarf deciduous shrub that brings year-round interest to your garden with its spectacular variegated foliage and charming pink blooms. This compact beauty is perfect for today's smaller gardens and busy lifestyles, offering maximum visual impact with minimal maintenance requirements.
Key Features & Benefits
Perfect for Small Spaces: Reaches just 12-18 inches tall with an 18-24 inch spread, making it ideal for containers, borders, or tight garden spots.
Stunning Foliage: Features sage green leaves with creamy-white edges and pink flushing, creating a beautiful tapestry effect that looks gorgeous even when not in bloom.
Pollinator Magnet: Vibrant blooms attract pollinators like a magnet, supporting your local ecosystem whilst adding life to your garden.
Low Maintenance: This plant does not need pruning, keeping its tiny, compact form naturally.
Plant Specifications
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Plant Type: Deciduous flowering shrub
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Mature Size: 1-2 feet tall and wide
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Growth Habit: Compact, rounded habit with gracefully arching branches
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Hardiness Zones: Fully hardy in the UK
Flowering & Seasonal Interest
Bloom Time: Early spring, with blooms lasting all season long
Flower Colour: Pink blooms that create a lovely contrast against the variegated foliage
Seasonal Changes: Variegated green and golden foliage turns to red in autumn, providing multi-season appeal
Blooming Pattern: Blooms on last year's growth
Growing Conditions & Care
Light Requirements
Needs full sun for best flowering and foliage colour, but will tolerate some light shade or sun-dappled shade. Thrives in full sun (6+ hours) to part shade (4-6 hours).
Soil Preferences
Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils. Tolerant of clay soils and soil tolerant, but prefers well-draining conditions with mildly acidic or alkaline pH between 5.5 and 7.5.
Watering Needs
Prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. New plants need consistent deep waterings whilst getting established.
Fertilising
Fertilise your weigela bush once a year in the spring, right before new growth appears on the plant.
Pruning
Prune to shape if needed immediately after flowering, though this low maintenance plant typically does not need pruning.
Garden Uses & Design Ideas
Border Plantings: Perfect for front-of-border placement where its compact size won't overwhelm neighbouring plants
Container Gardening: Excellent for containers, patios, and balcony gardens
Mass Plantings: Ideal for massing to create a stunning low hedge or ground cover effect
Mixed Plantings: Successful when planted along edges, or in mixed perennial borders
Specimen Plant: Makes an excellent specimen plant for small gardens or focal points
Wildlife & Environmental Benefits
Pollinator Support: Attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds
Deer Resistance: Deer-resistant, making it perfect for gardens in areas with deer pressure
Urban Tolerance: Highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments
Why Choose Weigela My Monet?
This award-winning shrub combines the best of both worlds: stunning ornamental value and practical garden performance. It's easy to see why it's so popular: weigela is easy to grow, deer-resistant, versatile, and perfect for modern gardening needs. Whether you're a beginner gardener or an experienced horticulturist, My Monet delivers reliable beauty with minimal fuss.
The striking variegated foliage provides interest throughout the growing season, whilst the pink blooms add a delightful spring and summer display. Its compact size makes it suitable for virtually any garden situation, from tiny courtyards to expansive landscapes.
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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