When we focus on plants that add color, texture or structure to the winter landscape. Scarlet Firethorn, which many gardeners know better as Pyracantha, easily fills the bill. This evergreen woody ...

A woody shrub with multi-season interest is the narrowleaf firethorn (Pyracantha angustifolia ‘Gnome’). This thorny shrub has small (2- to 2½-inch-long), narrow, lanceolate, glossy, dark-green leaves.

Last autumn I was awed by an old and very large firethorn shrub ablaze with thousands of pea-sized, scarlet berries. I’d forgotten how glorious pyracantha (P. coccinea) could be because – frankly – it ...

Growth habit: A rounded to sprawling evergreen multibranched shrub with thorny shoots growing to 8 feet tall and wide. The leaves are medium to dark green, linear in shape and growing to 3 inches long ...

TIME was when firethorn, or pyracantha, was one of the most reliable and toughest garden shrubs. It was a standard item in garden centres and widely planted in gardens, usually as a wall shrub but ...

This Gardening News column is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Here is a shrub I never ...

• Firethorns are included in the genus Pyracantha and include seven species and many cultivated varieties. The fast-growing branching shrub is in the rose family. It is most noted for its clusters of ...