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The listing, Red Flowering Quince Bush has ended.

Quince Apple that flowers red and is a great land scrapping bush and serves double duties with fruits for animals or humans...must be cooked first.
Zones are listed above with zone numbers, look for your state and see what zone number or color for your area's zone.
Compare to a seed web site on this bush and it's listed zones for this plant.
Bush does really well if mulched about 4 in thick and a barrier is used to keep mulch in place.
This not only helps to winterize but to also keep moisture in during hot months.
4 seeds
These are all I have till after Aug. of this year.
Will also include another type of seed if this GIN is used by Dec. 10, 2015...and has to been used before midnight.
Will include around 10 seed of Hardy Hibiscus Seeds.

Questions & Comments

are 4 seeds enough to actually grow a bush? how long do you think it would take to get to the size you have in the pic under perfect conditions? 1 season or years? I am not great at growing stuff but like this bush that's pictured. Thanks

Jul 18th, 2016 at 7:41:14 PM PDT by

hope my answer for you helped...this is a easy bush to grow...and yes it is a favorite of mine as well, not just for it's beauty but for its fruits as well and it is a wonderful plant to use to keep down soil erosion as well.

Jul 24th, 2016 at 2:55:37 PM PDT by

Beautiful, and the zone maps are just great and useful!! F and W, please fan back :)

Jul 21st, 2016 at 9:47:15 AM PDT by

Thank you...zone maps helps me also...so I dont have to look up several times a day, lol. Not that I mind, just sometimes I dont have time to do so with dr appointments and all. I appreciate that and F back.

Jul 24th, 2016 at 10:55:00 AM PDT by

What does the fruit taste like? Just like any apple or a mix?

Jul 23rd, 2016 at 3:04:16 PM PDT by

Fruit does have an apple taste, but a sour sweet apple taste....really good as jam or butter. Should cook before eating, unless you like the real sour taste of this fruit in a natural state. It is good, just will pucker you and makes you think your mouth has dried out....that's why I say it is better to cook and make the jam or butter with it, like apple butter.

Jul 24th, 2016 at 10:53:38 AM PDT by

If you were to plant a couple of seed in a cup of some sort and wait until there is good growth on plant and planted in sprint or late summer, kept three inches of mulch around plant and covered the first winter, it takes about two years to start producing enough fruit to start canning a few jam jars of jam or butter.
These are small fruits, not as large as a reg apple and they are prized where I am at for apple butter.....very hard to find in my neck of the woods.
and yes four seeds can produce at least one bush. The size of the bush in the photo is over five years old and the only good photo I have of this type bush.
It is to allow you to physically see what the end result would be.

Jul 24th, 2016 at 11:00:23 AM PDT by

My suggestion is to keep three to four inches of mulch year round, as I do and my bush just thrives every year and winter does not hurt it. This is a Texas developed plant and was meant to be ornamental, but the fruit are eatable, for I myself use the fruit of my bush to make apple butters.

Jul 24th, 2016 at 11:02:29 AM PDT by

thank you - great info

Jul 24th, 2016 at 3:37:03 PM PDT by

Thank you and glad to help

Jul 24th, 2016 at 7:49:36 PM PDT by

Red Flowering Quince Bush is in the Home & Garden | Gardening | Gardening Seeds & Bulbs category