Weigela Florida 'Wine & Roses'

[DonielDoom]

Last spring I obtained a couple landscape Weigela that had been listed for free online. They went into various beds, as I was running low on box material and nursery pots. This is one of two that seem to have a bit of character. There's a ton of dead material and moss that needs cleaned up, among other things. Today I noticed it had started to leaf out. So, I jumped on some root work and putting it into a box with pumice.

This one has a small, separate plant that I left sitting with it. It had some kind of charm.

I cleaned up some of the dead top section, but forgot to take a picture. It still needs work. Here's the photos from earlier.

 

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The "main trunk" section is completely dead. The small separate plant is alive. There's life in the other two small off-shoots, too.

That forces me to drastically change my styling direction. I was initially banking on the girth and bark of the main trunk as a primary feature. At this point, I'm likely to put this project on the backburner - let the new shoots grow out, gain vigor, and hopefully mold it into something of a clump style with a deadwood/stump-like central feature. That, or ditch it for something with more promise. Or just ditch it! I am in the era of my hobby where I need to specialize a bit and thin out what's not serving.