This bush is easy to grow with little or no maintenance, except to trim to size once a year . This is best done just after flowering for abundance of flowers next year.
Old established bushes are very difficult to remove and will continue to shoot up sprouts from root pieces for years.

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Oklahoma City gardens are overrun with 'Texas Scarlet' Flowering Quince... gangly old shrubs that were planted "back in the day" when the red and white varieties were the only ones offered. Every garden with flowering shrubs contained, it seemed, a red flowering quince and a yellow Forsythia... widely known as the two "harbingers of spring."
If for no other reason than for the sake of diversity it is fortunate that a few new varieties have been introduced in the past 2-3 decades. In my opinion two of the finest "new" offerings are 'Toyo-Nishiki' and Chaenomeles japonica var. alpina.
In the latters case the flowers are doubles colored a beautiful shade of peachy orange. Unlike the older forms this variety normally grows much wider than tall... typically 3 feet by 1 foot. It produces small, bitter tasting, pleasantly scented fruit in fall... fruit that is sometimes turned into delicious jellies and preserves.
This particular variety of quince is apparently much easier to grow than it is to find... but a search is well worth the effort. This is a very beautiful shrub in bloom.

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