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.

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 ...

Pyracantha is a genus of tenacious semi-evergreen or evergreen shrubs that grow well even in challenging planting sites. In late fall, pyracantha starts to produce showstopping clusters of bright red ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALTHOUGH the fortunes of the firethorn or pyracantha have gone downhill considerably in recent years, for a variety of reasons, it is still a dramatically beautiful shrub. This is a good year for ...