Flowering Quince...

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Yep2
Yep2 Posts: 1,335
edited February 2017 in The Clubhouse
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Mine is looking pretty rough (old).
There is one a few miles from me that is FULL of blooms!
I've enjoyed mine for 10 years.
If I'm not mistaken, they come in different colors.
I'd like to have more off this one...
I don't have a clue how to transplant a plant?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,806
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    Spring has sprung.
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  • F1nut
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    Does it have seeds?
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    edited February 2017
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    Cuttings from a shrub are very easy, you can work up the soil nearby, bend a branch to the ground, cover with soil and a brick or something to hold it down, and in a few months, snip between the ground and shrub, and it will have rooted itself.

    Also you can take wet peat moss, wrap it around a stem, wrap in aluminum foil, then saran wrap.

    A google search will tell you the best time, but early summer gives you plenty of time to do these cuttings, replant, and re root in their new home before frost.

    BTW, many old tired shrubs can be rejuvenated by cutting the old thick unproductive wood out, and after a quince blooms is a good time to do it, would not hurt a bit if you got a bag of cottonseed meal, pound foot deep holes around the shrub and pour the cottonseed meal in, its a great slow release nitrogen, I believe you can save this shrub as well as do well with cuttings, your property will be painted.

    Forsythia is a really nice shrub to plant near or with quince as they bloom at the same time

    good luck
    scott and deb
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  • F1nut
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    Better check, the good stuff doesn't have them. >:)
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  • scubalab
    scubalab Posts: 3,101
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    F1nut wrote: »
    Spring has sprung.
    Spring has sprung.
    The Grass is ris.
    I wonder where
    The birdies is.

    I'd credit my late grandfather with that one, but I think he stole it from Ogden Nash... :)
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,132
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    scubalab wrote: »
    F1nut wrote: »
    Spring has sprung.
    Spring has sprung.
    The Grass is ris.
    I wonder where
    The birdies is.

    I'd credit my late grandfather with that one, but I think he stole it from Ogden Nash... :)

    That was nice, and a lot nicer poem than the one my grandfather left with me
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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,048
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    Scottyboy has the right of it.

    This shrub flowers & fruits only on new wood.
    Cut away about 1/3 of the old wood, right to the crown. Do this once a year for 3 years. It's called "rejuvenation pruning".
    It should be done between autumn & leaf-break in the spring, while the plant is dormant.

    You can start new shrubs from softwood cuttings in addition to the "layering" method described above. Decent HOW-TO at:

    https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/flowering-quince/flowering-quince-propagation.htm
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
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    F1nut wrote: »
    Better check, the good stuff doesn't have them. >:)
    2 days until I got that, swear to god

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  • MrSandman89
    MrSandman89 Posts: 10
    edited December 2019
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    Wonderfull! Your flowers look wonderful! My wife would love them, she's crazy about flowers. Thanks to her effort we have the most beautiful garden from the neighborhood. All our neighbors envy us. We got some rare flowers also, like the Lady's Slipper. But what I love the most isn't this flower, I love the Angel’s Trumpet. They're so beautiful. When they bloom, all our garden fills with color. I think I might be a fan of the bell shaped flower.
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