Shrubs With Purple Leaves & Red Flowers

Types

• A hybrid of weigela known as Midnight Wine features purple foliage and flowers that are a pink shade of red. Another weigela cultivar called Rumba has wine-red flowers with a yellow interior, highlighted by green leaves with purple borders. The Japanese maple hybrids Inaba-shidare and Red Select take shrub form and possess purple foliage and red blooms.

Size and Use

• The size of shrubs with purple leaves and red flowers dictates how you can use them in the landscape. The dwarf shrub weigela Midnight Wine works as a foundation plant or low hedge, growing to 2 feet tall. The Japanese maples with these features serve as understory trees or patio plants when in containers. They normally grow to between 6 and 10 feet.

Time Frame

• The leaves of Midnight Wine turn a deep shade of purple in the fall, with the flowers blooming forth from April through June. Rumba blossoms mainly from June into July, with some blooming off and on through the summer. The Japanese maple hybrids bloom in early spring; Red Select's purple leaves turn crimson by the fall.