In my Zone 7A garden, I planted Chaenomeles 'Toyo Nishiki' about ten years ago, in a spot where she gets full sun a few hours each day, b...Read Moreut also considerable shade. I have been pruning her to be less of a thicket (which is the flowering quince tendency) but rather to expose the branches. The blossoms are lovely. I have been trying to get cuttings, and I found that while some plants will root without being covered with plastic to increase the humidity, flowering quince really appreciates the soda bottle or baggie over the pot. There are seedlings around her, but I have heard that they will not necessarily breed true. I wish I had a larger yard, so that I could have room for all the other colors of flowering quince.
Very handsome in bloom. (Flowers are white and salmon-pink, with no red flowers on this cultivar.) Unfortunately, bloom season is brief, ...Read Moreand this species has little interest when out of bloom.
Flowers on second-year wood. Should be pruned shortly after flowering to accommodate this. Friends don't let friends use hedge clippers!
The natural asymmetrical growth habit and gorgeous multi-colored blooms along with unsurpassed drought and heat tolerance once establishe...Read Mored make this shrub one of my all-time favorites!
In my Zone 7A garden, I planted Chaenomeles 'Toyo Nishiki' about ten years ago, in a spot where she gets full sun a few hours each day, b...Read More
Very handsome in bloom. (Flowers are white and salmon-pink, with no red flowers on this cultivar.) Unfortunately, bloom season is brief, ...Read More
The natural asymmetrical growth habit and gorgeous multi-colored blooms along with unsurpassed drought and heat tolerance once establishe...Read More
FIRST YEAR,AND IS HEALTHY SO FAR....WAIT AND SEE.