This month on Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw explore some of the most popular shrubs to grace nursery benches and gardens. In this episode, they take a look at weigelas, their colourful foliage, seasons of bloom, and the different sized cultivars to fit perfectly in any garden.

Tune in to learn more about how to successfully grow weigelas in your garden.

Joanne and Matt discuss:

• How to pronounce weigelas
• Growing conditions: soil, temperature, zones, lighting and watering
• Blooming: type, when and for how long, what colours
• Their use and value to the perennial garden
• Cultivars of note for each plant

Enjoy last year's Down the Garden Path podcast episodes on shrubs:

Shrubs: Pruning - July 9th, 2020

Shrubs: Evergreens - July 15th, 2020

Hydrangeas - July 16th, 2018

Shrubs: Nativars - July 28th, 2020

Upcoming Shows:

August: A month dedicated to flowering trees, including standard trees, flowering dogwoods and large flowering trees.

About Your Hosts

Each week on Down The Garden Path podcast, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes.

As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade.

And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.