Features and Growing Tips

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Landscape Qualities

Double Take Pink Flowering Quince is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape | but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Ornamental Qualities

Double Take Pink Flowering Quince features showy coral-pink cup-shaped flowers with buttery yellow eyes along the branches in early spring before the leaves. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has green deciduous foliage which emerges red in spring. The glossy oval leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Planting and Growing

Double Take Pink Flowering Quince will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations | and should do just fine under average home landscape conditions. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun

Deer Resistant

Keep moisture level dry to moist

Mature Size 4'Hx4'W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are coral

Flowers in early spring

Zone 5a

Likes average to moist soil