Flowering Quince progession

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Here is a fun one. This is a Japanese quince I acquired back in ‘18. I believe the variety is “Toyo Nishiki”

When I first acquired it I thought I was going to wire it into a weeping style. I quickly realized that’s going to just result in a giant bush in a pot.

2018 - it was getting a bit wild in the bench.


This is the first time I styled it. Tried to make it “weeping” to mixed results.


Here are the first few times it flowered for me:


They start white then turn to a beautiful pink.


From there, the plant just would get bushy and I’d move it to the back of the garden except in springtime. Eventually I started looking at the growth habits it was already showing and I thought I might restyle it into a more windswept or slanted look.

2020



Since then, I’ve been working this plant into the windswept/slanted look. In 2022 I did a major reduction on the rootball size and a repot. This weakened the tree overall but as of today it’s a bush again and I’m hoping to have a very nice show of flowers again next spring.

Early Spring ‘23




Full flower ‘23

 

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Your Toyo Nishiki looks very healthy. Niclely done.

Not sure this style is my cup of tea, but it’s really good to see ideas out of one’s wheelhouse!

We wire quince infrequently, choosing clip and grow to give it the quirkiest gnarly look possible. It’s my Michael Hagedorn training - go for maximum quirkiness

P,ease keep updating this thread. I’m very interested to see how this design matures.

cheers
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March ‘24 update.

 

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I remove them to control energy throughout the tree but every year I’m amazed at the transition from bud, to flower, to fruit.