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How to plant and care for Firethorn (Pyracantha)
Pyracantha 'Orange Glow'
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
A spiny evergreen with white June flowers and masses of orange berries that birds feast on in winter. Train it on a wall or grow as a hedge.
When to plant and care for it
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Flowers
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Firethorn (Pyracantha): what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well for the first summer, then in dry spells
- Soil
- Any well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 2 m
- Height
- 3 m
- In pots
- Only in large containers
- Feeding
- Balanced feed in spring
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 6–9
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 2 m apart, and firm in.
- 0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
- 7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.
Every year
- JuneIn Flower
White flowers for bees.
- JulySummer Trim
Shorten new shoots just beyond the developing berry clusters so the fruit shows. Wear thick gloves.
- NovemberBerries for Birds
Bright berries feeding the birds — take a photo.
