Pyracantha Species, Red Firethorn, Scarlet Firethorn

I am a little bit surprised when one of my friends who got some seeds from me got a fast germination compared to seeds batch which got so...Read Moreme stratification process. While every single germination tips of this one must have the stratification as the main procedure.

I live in tropical climate and got no winter seasons. But the seedling are more prone to the fungus.

RIght now he would try to germinate the seeds without the stratification and got some fungicide added, hope he could let me know the result in the few weeks ahead.

I loved growing Pyrancantha for the berries. I have a great recipe for pyracantha glaze and will be looking to plant some at my new house...Read More here in Ky.

I enjoy the blossoms and berries from my neighbor's plant...the plant is tall enough to hang over the fence. The bees love the blossoms ...Read Moreand we love the beauty of the blossoms and the red berries. I think this is the plant that grew in my mother's friend's yard...and my mom would go and cut 'boughs' at Christmas time and use them like holly. In fact, I grew up thinking that they were holly!

Excellent for planting under windows if there is a danger of teens climbing out (or in), because of the thorns it's hard to get out of wi...Read Morethout tearing up clothes or skin. It's a lesson quickly learned and seldom repeated.
Plus it is a pretty bush that attracts butterflies and birds as well as easy to care for.

These grow in alkaline and salty soils, too. They also seem to take some amount of drought, as they are still around old abandoned house...Read Mores, sustaining themselves on about 8" of precipitaion a year. Handsome and mighty architectural plants.

A beautiful plant. Evergreen, the thorns can be used to create a fence with this plant. The Red variety is prone to freezing, but the O...Read Morerange is more cold hardy. Usually on Christmas day thousands of Robins show up at ours and eat every berry in an hour. They then sit around and look stupid for a while. This photo shows the Red vareity in the act of changing colors rapidly.

I really like this plant because it will grow on almost any kind of soil, and with that it stay's green in winter. By the way, I also hav...Read Moree one with yellow berries, it's called Soleil d'Or.

Berries can be orange or red depending on the variety. The red berries look great for Christmas decorations. Birds who eat the berries be...Read Morecome intoxicated. This plant likes summer heat.

This shrub is covered in small white flowers in the spring, but the best feature of this shrub is the clusters of orange berries it has i...Read Moren the fall. One drawback to this shrub is the thorns.