PL#4085
Vinho Verde
Weigela 'SMNWFBGV'
There’s nothing else quite like Vinho Verde ® weigela! After years of positive feedback from trial garden visitors during its evaluation, we're pleased to offer this unique selection, characterized by lime green leaves set off with a bold, black margin. Discovered as a variegated sport on a seedling whose parents were golden ‘Briant’s Rubidor’ and burgundy ‘Naomi Campbell’. Like all variegated plants, it will occasionally revert, but it reverts to all black, so will not overgrow the plant. A light crop of red-pink flowers appear in late spring, but the foliage - coupled with an irresistibly neat habit - are the primary reasons to grow this beauty.
Public reference
- Genus
- Weigela
- Species
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- Cultivar
- SMNWFBGV
- Trade name
- VINHO VERDE
- Hardiness zones
- 5–8 (USDA)
- Mature height
- 3–5 ft
- Mature width
- 3–5 ft
- Description
- There’s nothing else quite like Vinho Verde ® weigela! After years of positive feedback from trial garden visitors during its evaluation, we're pleased to offer this unique selection, characterized by lime green leaves set off with a bold, black margin. Discovered as a variegated sport on a seedling whose parents were golden ‘Briant’s Rubidor’ and burgundy ‘Naomi Campbell’. Like all variegated plants, it will occasionally revert, but it reverts to all black, so will not overgrow the plant. A light crop of red-pink flowers appear in late spring, but the foliage - coupled with an irresistibly neat habit - are the primary reasons to grow this beauty.
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- Deciduous / evergreen
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- Drought tolerant
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- Flood tolerant
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Flowers
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Foliage
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- Variegated
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- Deer resistant
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- Rodent resistant
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- Thornless
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- Has seed pods
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Legal
- Asexual propagation forbidden
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