Red Pyracantha Flowers

However this variety is also chosen for its profuse long lasting red berries in autumn and we also love it for its highly scented creamy flowers in may. Later in the year the berries add bright pops of color to a quiet winter landscape.

Seattle Garden Ideas October 2010

Red pyracantha flowers

It is often trained against a wall or fence. Tall and 10 ft. Nearly all species have needlelike thornsthus the common name firethorn.

Noted for its disease resistance pyracantha coccinea red cushion scarlet firethorn is a thorny evergreen shrub of compact and tidy habit with glossy oval dark green leaves. Pyracantha is a pretty shrub with attractive flowers and magnificent red yellow or orange berries in autumn and winter. Pyracantha red berries pyracantha coccinea red column hedge plants description.

A tall gorgeous specimen with loads of rich red berries would make an impressive and useful thick dense hedge. Pyracantha is a dense spiny evergreen shrub so ideal as an intruder deterrent. Pyracantha x monelf sku 6860 an attractive compact rounded shrub that displays bright red berries throughout fall and winter against glossy dark evergreen foliage.

The highly fragrant bee friendly white flowers of red firethorn stand out against the small mid green foliage of this evergreen hedging plant in may. The real glory of firethorns is in their thick clusters of pea size orange red berries which light up the garden for months. These develop into red or orange berries that persist well into winter.

Therefore you may want to choose a fertile moist location when planting firethorn. Once the flowers are gone the branches are smothered in bunches of glossy red berries which make pyracantha hedging a great food source for wildlife such as birds. It is often trained against a wall or fence.

Seattle Garden Ideas 2012