Over the years, I, like many gardeners, have purchased shrubs that appealed to me but that I did not know very much about. This behavior on my part eventually led to my planting three quince ...
Cydonia oblonga Mill, known commonly as quince, is a fruit of significant botanical and economic interest. Its distinctive properties, diverse cultivars, and array of bioactive compounds have ...
Quick! Make a New Year's resolution before the best ones are all gone. Tell as many people as possible so that it will be embarrassing to fail. Say, 'I will plant a quince in 2002.' You know that you ...
A family’s quince orchard becomes a place of harvest, healing and connection on Wadawurrung Country. Millie introduces one of the world’s oldest cultivated fruits, the quince (Cydonia oblonga). At a ...
Quince (Cydonia oblonga) is a small deciduous tree or large shrub in the Rosaceae family. The quince fruit, called a pome, is somewhat similar in appearance to a pear or golden apple. The tree can be ...
A coveted quince may have started the Trojan War. Greek lore says quince was the golden apple that the love goddess Aphrodite coveted. Aphrodite devised a scheme that enticed the mortal Paris to ...