(Orange Jessamine)

Attracting hummingbirds and butterflies with its clusters of golden flowers, orange jessamine is showy and exciting in the landscape from spring to fall. An evergreen shrub native from Guatemala to Venezuela, it grows with upright branches that arch out and down. The leaves are glossy green and oval, darkening as they age or receive full sunlight. Flowering most heavily in spring, it continues flowering to late autumn as long as temperatures remain warm. The small flower customers appear on the stem...

(Butterfly Flower, Red Cestrum)

From spring to early fall, red cestrum displays cute clusters of pinkish red, tubular flowers that attract hummingbirds and butterflies. A fast-growing evergreen shrub with arching branches, it is a Mexican native. The leaves are lance-shaped, mid-green and have tiny silvery hairs. Anytime from spring to early fall, when temperatures are warm and soil moisture plentiful, the small tubular flowers appear in tight clusters on twig tips. Each blossom is pink, pink-red or magenta, long and has five short,...

(Night Jessamine, Night-blooming Jasmine)

When the moon shines a heavenly fragrance announces night-blooming jasmine.

A member of the nightshade family, night-blooming jasmine is native to the tropical Americas and West Indies. It is a large, sprawling evergreen shrub with simple, waxy, oval-shaped leaves. Clusters of small, tubular,green-white to cream-colored flowers appear from spring to fall and are followed by berries that are most commonly white. Plants are most floriferous when weather is moist and warm.

Night-blooming jasmine...

(Flowering Quince)

(Flowering Quince)

(Flowering Quince, Orange Delight Flowering Quince)

In late winter and early spring the hybrid flowering quince, 'Orange Delight', displays vibrant orange-red flowers that attract early-season bees. This medium-sized shrub has a rounded to spreading habit and dense, thorny twigs that make it useful for protective hedges or screens.

Clusters of semi-double, bowl-shaped flowers cover this quince in early spring both before and after the glossy leaves emerge. The simple leaves emerge slightly bronze in spring and turn dark green as the season progresses....

(Flowering Quince)

(Flowering Quince, Toyo-nishiki Flowering Quince)

Noted for its early spring clusters of bowl-shaped flowers in white, coral-pink and light pink, 'Toyo-nishiki' is considered one of the prettiest flowering quinces for the garden. Its buds and blossoms cover the plant while the oval, teethed, green leaves emerge on the zig-zagged, thorny branches. Fragrant yellow, apple-shaped fruits ripen in the fall and are cooked for preserves and jellies, but are not eaten fresh.

Though it grows and flowers best in full sun and well-drained, acidic-to-neutral...

(Japanese Flowering Quince, Maule's Flowering Quince)

Admired for its beautiful spring blooms, Japanese flowering quince is a spiny, compact to medium-sized, deciduous shrub native to Japan. Profuse clusters of small, salmon or orange, bowl-shaped flowers cover the plant very early in spring, before and after its smooth green leaves emerge. These are followed by gnarled, yellowish, apple-shaped fruits that are fully ripe by fall and may be used to make preserves or jelly. Of all the flowering quince species, this is considered the hardiest.

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(Japanese Flowering Quince)

A uniformly dwarf, alpine form of standard flowering quince, 'Alpina' is a long-cultivated type selected from seed collected on Japanese islands near Kyushu by the first director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, C. S. Sargent. Admired for its beautiful spring blooms, Japanese flowering quince is a spiny, compact to medium-sized, deciduous shrub native to Japan. Profuse clusters of small, salmon or orange, bowl-shaped flowers cover the plant very early in spring, before and after its smooth green leaves...