{"id":15224,"date":"2016-02-21T03:54:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T10:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15224"},"modified":"2016-02-19T03:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T10:06:55","slug":"japonica-cydonia-chaenomeles-quince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/japonica-cydonia-chaenomeles-quince\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowering Quince Japonica – Cydonia – Chaenomeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Compact, early flowering shrubs with jam making potential from fruit in autumn make these plants well worth cultivating.
\nAs I think you can now imagine Chaenomeles make good and often under utilised shrubs and small trees in the garden\u00c2\u00a0 landscape. Varieties vary from 3 feet to 12 feet in height. I grew my plants from seed supplied by the Royal Horticultural Society in the annual seed distribution.<\/p>\n

Growing Tips for Quince<\/h3>\n

Ornamental Quince also known as Cydonia are shade tolerant. For hedging the thorns make for a good security feature.
\nShrubs may look a bit scruffy but are great when trained on a wall.
\nAgainst walls they should be spur-pruned like apple varieties to produce a heavier crop of flowers and fruit. In other formal situations, it should be treated as any other early-flowering shrub and pruned directly after flowering to encourage new growth on which to flower the following year. They only need light pruning.
\nThe fruit of the common quince, Cydonia oblonga Vranja, has the best flavour for cooking.
\nThe flowers are a good source of early nectar and pollen for solitary bees.
\nChaenomeles are generally vigorous and suffers little from pest and disease problems.
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Varieties to Grow<\/h3>\n

Chaenomeles speciosa were the first species to be grown in the UK. Chaenomeles japonica arrived at the end of the 18th century. Some of the best varieties are hybrid crosses between these two species.
\nChaenomeles speciosa varieties like white flowered \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNivalis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 remain popular but the leave tend to cover the blossom. I like the light pink \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMoerloosei\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEximia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 an old variety with pinkish-red flowers, dating back to the 1880s.
\nChaenomeles x superba \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCrimson and Gold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 has a well deserved AGM
\nThere are some interesting new varieties where breeders have gone with pink and orange varieties like C. x superba \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPink Lady\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (AGM) or C. Rowallane a larger blood red with spreading habit.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The white-flowered Chaenomeles x superba \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcJet Trail\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is a lovely ground-cover plant.
\nChaenomeles x superba \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTortuosa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is a very distinctive variety that makes another good ground-cover option \u00e2\u20ac\u201c stems grow all over the place.
\nChaenomeles x superba \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcRowallane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 AGM, which tends to be lower growing and ideal for covering a bank or low wall.<\/p>\n

Companion Planting<\/h3>\n

Under the red flowered quince you could do worse than grow the greeny gold Euphorbia robbiae.
\nClematis alpina makes a good foil with its small flowers and constrained growth habit.
\nGrowing against a wall or as a standard leaves many options open for companion plants.
\nI think the flowering Quince family deserve to be more widely grown.<\/p>\n

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