Can you remember a visit to your grandparents’ home and the fascination with what was growing in their yard? Perhaps one of the shrubs was one that we value today and it is just finishing its bloom ...

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One winter-blooming shrub that feels familiar and comforting to me is the flowering quince. This plant quietly becomes part of the family landscape, showing up year after year without ever demanding ...

The first time I saw a flowering quince was about 25 years ago east of Tallahassee in Monticello. A co-worker and her husband purchased an old home from a fabulous gardener and she wanted me to come ...

Chaenomeles, pronounced “kee-NOM-uh-leez,” is a pretty word that describes a small genus of shrubs commonly known as flowering quinces. It comes from the Greek “chainein,” meaning to split, and “melea ...

Question: I have forsythia and flowering quince. When and how to I prune these? They have rampant growth, but I don’t want to accidentally prune so much that I don’t get any flowers next year. Answer: ...

Pruning your shrubs is perhaps the least exciting part of gardening (though it may still beat weeding). But when it's done at the right time and with the proper technique, it can produce great results ...

Q: We moved into our new home last year just after New Year’s. In the backyard, in a nicely sheltered southwest corner, there are two established shrubs. The shorter of the two is what I believe to be ...

Hydrangeas are a Southern garden staple so universally loved that no one dares question even a single cluster of baby-blue blooms, even if they're merely there to flank your trash cans. If you're ...

Flowering quince – Chaenomeles sp. Flowering quince is an heirloom plant, that was grown in your grandmother’s garden. The older variety was C. japonica. People couldn't pronounce the genus ...

Spring has sprung, the days are getting longer, the weather is getting warmer and the flowers are opening. As a child, I remember early spring as being a riot of color and the air being filled with ...