California Gardening: Wintrer in California, 1 by soilsandup

soilsandup wrote:
I have tried to divide and transplant several types of perennial statice, and they were all unsuccessful. I finally read somewhere that they don't take transplanting well, so it is good to know that it is not just me. LoL.

Doss - I have the death to seeds syndrome too.

I have a question for any growers of flowering quince - Chaenomeles. I have a large bush that normally blooms profusely this time of the year (near Chinese New Year). But this year, due to the mild fall and winter we have been having in my part of California, the leaves of my flowering quince did not drop off at all. In the photo below, it is still very green. I looked for blossoms, and only found a few in about 5 or 6 branches that had no leaves. So, my question is, does the leaves have to undergo senescence and fall off before the flower buds form on the quince? Last week, I handstripped a bunch of branches, but don't know if that will do any good (as in the case of trying to fool mother nature?)