A Tapestry Hedge is planted along the top of our Shabby Chic planting. The different shades of green are interspersed with splashes of warm raspberry pink provided by the Japonica. Often referred to as 'flowering quince', the latin name for this deciduous, spiney shrub is Chaenomeles.
This plant is beautiful in its simplicity, the sparse knobbled branches are graced with individual flower-heads which are randomly spaced. It's understated elegance harks back to it's origins in China & Asia. In early spring the contrast of the sugar-shrimp coloured flowers against the cool bark & shades of green is stunning. It injects warmth into a Spring garden of pale lemon primroses and baby-pink blossom. For me it offers promise of the stronger colours to come as the season progresses - when its' bolder cousins in the Rosaceae family will flaunt their blooms in the summer sun.
