Q: My Sonic Bloom weigela gets some dead-looking branches every year. I usually cut them below the dead leaves. I have already cut out a lot. Should I, or is this normal leaf drop? It has had the ...

* What it is: A weigela that flowers in fall? This new three-color series of an old-fashioned flowering shrub blooms best in its traditional May time frame, but it also puts out a second lighter but ...

Our recent hard rain knocked the petals off every single tiger lily in my garden. Other later-blooming lilies are weathering our weather. I also noticed the “Sonic Bloom Pearl” reblooming weigela is ...

Why settle for a shrub that blooms for just a few weeks in spring when you can get one that blooms both spring and fall — and maybe a bit in between? That’s been the aim of plant breeders in the last ...

Many of us probably think of weigela as a plant in our grandparents’ yard. The ones on the market today are nothing like their predecessors. For one thing, plant breeders have scaled down the shrub to ...