The weigela, forsythia, and spiraea are also excellent shrubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference

The front of the bed could be edged with pulmonaria if the location has filtered sun, backed by several very compact, dwarf weigela, which have maroon foliage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Scene: Landscaping can make potential buyers feel right at home] Reference

The house was a vast 1950s waterfall brick affair hanging off a hill and it was overgrown with the kinds of shrubs that everyone had in the 1950s; weigela, hibiscus, plumbago.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I cooked last night.] Reference

Foster had been recalcitrant, pointing out that the forsythia would have to go and the weigela, and them there lilacs, but Gwenda had been adamant, and he was now almost enthusiastic about his task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sleeping Murder]

Sickly sweet weigela is so easy it suffers my snobbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference

Some of my favorites, such as Razzmatazz crape myrtle and a lovely variegated weigela came from there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News from Spartanburg Herald Journal] Reference

I thought this was because of overhanging foliage from a neighbour's garden, but now that has gone the weigela still does not thrive.    From Wordnik.com.  [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference

This is true of most fruit-trees, and such shrubs as lilac, forsythia, tree peony, wistaria, some spireas and viburnums, weigela, deutzia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

Early-spring bloomers like azaleas, forsythia, lilac, weigela, redbud, ornamental cherry and star magnolia are pruned later; prune them now and you remove flower buds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shad Plank] Reference

Amid sun-lovers, I habitually tuck in my new finds such as a 'My Monet' weigela I picked up at a nursery this summer; a salvia I spotted at a local K-Mart; and the licorice mint.    From Wordnik.com.  [HeraldTimesOnline.com] Reference

Yet early in the novel one of Mary Beth's large landscaping jobs ( "six tiers of shrubs, a small copse of flowering plum and pear, a long hedge of weigela") is vandalized, the plantings uprooted and carried off overnight.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

Nearby another weigela blooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference

The walks were bordered with shrubs — pyrus, japonica, forsythia, spirea, in all varieties, lilac, snowball, weigela, althea, syringa, mock-orange and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Caroline County, Virginia] Reference