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  • Carollporter61Carollporter61 Posts: 5
    Could someone please identify this for me? 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They also have edible fruit .. it’s not good to eat raw … they’re very hard … but you can use them as quinces to make jelly and to add to game casseroles etc. 😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Carollporter61Carollporter61 Posts: 5
    Thank you! I’ve never heard of it but it’s quite pretty
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    My neighbour gave me some fruit from her chaenomeles to make jelly but I found it tasteless.
  • Carollporter61Carollporter61 Posts: 5
    I will just be glad if it survives! 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It'll survive ... they're quite hard to see off  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Dovefromabove said:
    It'll survive ... they're quite hard to see off  :D
    oh dear, I've let 2 die in the past. maybe I'll try again


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Yours looks a nice pink.  They can be an ugly brick-red.  Mine is a double pink that I first saw at Bodnant.  I don't remember the name off-hand, but it's in my records.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Maybe too dry where you are @nutcutlet? They like a reasonable amount of moisture in my experience.
    Funnily enough I've just been looking again at them, as I fancy a white one for a corner I have. The strong reds are nice too, for spring colour, mixed with paler colours etc.
    The ones I wouldn't have are the peachy ones, but that's a colour I can't bear anywhere- inside or out. All comes down to preference  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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