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Chaenomeles speciosa (SWEET) NAKAI (quince)

German: ScheinquitteCzech: kdoulovec lahvicovitý
Genus:  ChaenomelesFamily:  Rosaceae,
Mature Height: 2.00 mDeciduous:  deciduous plant
Bloom in:    III, IV, Flower Colour:    red
Soil Preferred:  humic, Light Required:  full sunpart shade
Other Attributes:  deciduous shrub, erect form, alternate leaves, ovate, leaf margin serrate, fruit - pome, solitaire, hedge, attractive flowers, fragrance plant, cut plant,
Photo: Chaenomeles speciosa, quince, Chaenomeles
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External links:
Michigan State University Extension: Chaenomeles speciosa --Flowering Quince
USDA PLANTS: Chaenomeles speciosa (flowering quince)
Virginia Tech: Chaenomeles speciosa Fact Sheet
WIKIPEDIA: Chaenomeles speciosa
Wisflora: Chaenomeles speciosa (Sweet) Nakai
Google - Define: Chaenomeles speciosa | Images: Chaenomeles speciosa | Images: quince

The Homeowner's Complete Tree & Shrub Handbook: The Essential Guide to Choosing, Planting, and Maintaining Perfect Landscape Plants

Penelope O'Sullivan,
Product Description: Trees and shrubs bring permanence and structure to home landscapes, adding character and beauty to the entire property. They can impart an immediate sense of geography; act as background staging for flower gardens, outdoor living spaces, and children’s play areas; and provide cool shadows and privacy from neighbors and passers-by. They are essential to every beautiful yard, yet many homeowners do not give them the attention that flowers and lawns traditionally receive.

Penny O’Sullivan gives trees and shrubs the respect they deserve in her lively, comprehensive book, The Homeowner’s Complete Tree & Shrub Handbook. Woody plants, she maintains, can be the heart and soul of the home landscape plan. Their contribution to the yard might include a springtime canopy of blossoms; colorful, delicious summer fruit; a regal year-round silhouette; rough and rugged bark; or seasonally changing foliage. Their presence is a soothing anchor in the ever-changing environment of a typical yard.

In three sections — design, plant profiles, and care — this handbook covers every essential consideration of tree and shrub gardening. After an introduction to the principles of garden design, O’Sullivan guides readers through tree and shrub selection, with special considerations for owner expectations and growing conditions.

The heart of the book is the extensive encyclopedia of hundreds of tree and shrub portraits. Each profile covers ease of cultivation, availability, history, hardiness, size, growth rate, and special characteristics. O’Sullivan also includes warnings about plants not to grow, such as invasive exotics and disease-prone trees and shrubs.

The final section covers care and maintenance, with thorough advice on buying and planting; siting; pruning; fertilizing; and coping with diseases, pests, and environmental problems.

Adding trees and shrubs to a home landscape can be an expensive proposition. To make their purchases and protect their investment, homeowners will constantly refer to this book for O'Sullivan’s wise advice.
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (2007-10-31)
Price: $29.95

Arboriculture: Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines (4th Edition)

Richard W. Harris, James R. Clark, Nelda P. Matheny,

Publisher: Prentice Hall (2003-01-26)
Price: $91.40

How to Make a Forest Garden

Patrick Whitefield,
Product Description: A forest garden is a food-producing garden, based on the model of a natural woodland or forest. It is made up of fruit and nut trees, fruit bushes, perennial vegetables and herbs. It can be tailored to fit any space, from a tiny urban back yard to a large rural garden.
A close copy of a natural ecosystem, it is perhaps the most ecologically friendly way of gardening open to us.
It is also a low-maintenance way of gardening. Once established there is none of the digging, sowing, planting out and hoeing of the conventional kitchen garden. The main task is picking up the produce!
This highly practical, yet inspiring book gives you everything you need to know in order to create a beautiful and productive forest garden,

including:
* Basic principles
* Layout
* How to choose plants
* Details of over one hundred plants, from apples to mushrooms
* the most comprehensive account of perennial and self-seeding vegetables in print
* A step-by-step guide to creating your garden
* Full details of an example garden, and pictures of many more
Forest gardening is an important element of permaculture. This book explains in detail permaculture design for temperate climates and contains much of interest for anybody wanting to introduce sustainable practices into their garden.
Publisher: Permanent Publications (2002-06-22)
Price: $29.95

Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines: A Guide to Using, Growing, and Propagating North American Woody Plants

William Cullina,
Product Description: For gardeners, for landscape professionals, and for anyone who cares about preserving the natural world, NATIVE TREES, SHRIBS, AND VINES is the first national guide to using, growing, and propagating North American woody plants.
Written in lively, informative language and illustrated with more than two hundred photographs, William Cullina's book is a comprehensive reference to almost one thousand native woody plants. An invaluable guide for naturalists, restorationists, nursery owners, landscape architects, and designers as well as gardeners, it points out that ecological gardening offers specific benefits to the individual as well as the environment. Even more than wildflowers, native trees, shrubs, and vines are essential to providing the food and shelter that attract birds and insects to the garden. And plants that are native to an area are far easier to grow and maintain than ordinary cultivated garden plants.
The author's acclaimed companion volume on wildflowers, GROWING AND PROPAGATING WILDFLOWERS, was called "an inspired effort, beautifully written and loaded with useful information" by Robert G. Breunig, director of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Along with that volume, NATIVE TREES, SHRUBS, AND VINES provides a definitive reference to the native plants of the temperate North American continent. And because Cullina writes from personal experience with the plants in his books, he offers information that is considerably more helpful (and more interesting) than the facts one finds in most plant references.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (2002-06-12)
Price: $40.00

Conifers for Gardens: An Illustrated Encyclopedia

Richard L. Bitner,
Product Description: Conifers for Gardens is intended to take away the element of uncertainty when you're choosing a plant that may alter your yard for years to come. Profusely illustrated with more than 1,500 crisp photographs and brimming with concise descriptions of both species and their numerous cultivars, this meticulously researched reference provides information - including size, appearance, hardiness, preferred growing conditions and susceptibility to pests and diseases - for almost every hardy conifer you're likely to encounter in the trade, whether it's a tried-and-true favorite or a connoisseur's treasure. So if you've ever been torn between, say, 'Golden Mop', 'Lemon Thread', and 'Sungold' sawara-cypresses, relax - choosing and identifying conifers just got a whole lot easier.
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated (2007-06-01)
Price: $59.95
Translation
Ing. Hana Vymazalová
Garden Designer