Delightful soft apricot-pink blooms precede foliage, among first flowers to appear each year and long-lasting! Useful compact hedge or shrub. Quince-like fruit attracts birds. Deciduous.
Once flowering quince is established, though, the plant is quite forgiving of a wide range of temperature and humidity levels. This shrub is quite cold-hardy, tolerating temperatures as low as minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit.
Toxicity. Flowering quince bush fruits are non-toxic to humans and wildlife, according to the Colorado State University County Extension Office.
