weigelias

Suppose you had a highway into Lancaster lined on either side for a half mile with pink weigelias in the spring.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921

By the end of the week the fig-trees were giving shade, the plum-blossom was out among the olives, the modest weigelias appeared in their fresh pink clothes, and on the rocks sprawled masses of thick-leaved star-shaped flowers, some vivid purple and some a clear, pale lemon.

The Enchanted April 1922

By the end of the week the fig-trees were giving shade, the plum-blossom was out among the olives, the modest weigelias appeared in their fresh pink clothes, and on the rocks sprawled masses of thick-leaved, star-shaped flowers, some vivid purple and some a clear, pale lemon.

The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

With weigelias and many others the number of the tips of the corolla varies downwards, going from five to four and three.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

All others are whipped away by the night-winds into the angles of old walls, or are packed under low-limbed shrubberies, there to swelter and keep warm the rootlets of the newly planted weigelias and spruces, until the snows and February suns and April mists and May heats shall have transmuted them into fat and unctuous mould.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various