Pandy’s Garden Center Quince Texas Scarlet Red

If you love color, birds and butterflies, but really need a low-maintenance option for your garden. . . you’ll adore Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles japonica ‘Texas Scarlet’). This charming compact shrub is one of the very first plants to flower in the spring.

The dynamic display of bright, tangerine-red spring color will absolutely knock your socks off. The blooms last for weeks! Get ready for neighbors to talk about it. Total strangers may flag you down in your yard to ask questions.

Flowers bloom just before the new red leaves emerge. Keep your binoculars and camera ready, because birds such as Baltimore Orioles love the sweet nectar. Butterflies always appreciate early blooms.

Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince is a brilliant harbinger of the season. It begins its dramatic display of flowers held on bare branches. Blooms begin as early as early January in the South, early February in the West and late February in the North, often breaking atop a snow-blanketed landscape.

As you can imagine, this tough shrub is a welcome sight for winter-tired eyes. You’ll thrill every single year to see your Quince bloom.

Showy young foliage emerge as red-tinted leaves. Foliage matures into glossy green foliage over the summer and burnish with burgundy-purple for fall color.

Japanese Flowering Quince is a low-growing, thorny shrub that stays compact. It features a picturesque growth habit, and wonderful interlaced branch structure. Use these beautiful branches in your cut flower arrangements spring, summer and fall!

Small, yellow-green fruit is ready in the late summer. The birds will very happily take them off your hands for you. When designing your garden, why not select plants that help improve your local ecosystem?

If a beautiful bloom and a plant that requires little attention is your desire, then the Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince would be a great addition to your landscape.