6. Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles speciosa) Here’s a deciduous shrub that will ring in the last chapter of winter with a profusion of flowers. Flowering quince is otherwise a dense, twiggy bush ...

Be aware of buds. Spring-flowering shrubs such as forsythia, lilac and flowering quince have already formed next year’s flower buds. If you prune them in winter, you will be reducing the spring ...

Cut branches forced into bloom can help add sunshine to those gloomy winter days and it is not hard to coax many into flower. Branches from cherry, plum, forsythia, apple, ...

Begin forcing branches of spring-flowering shrubs indoors. Two- to 3-foot-long stems of forsythia, quince, winter honeysuckle, Pussy willow, deutzia and Thunberg’s spiraea force readily.