Bonsai of Chaenomeles 20 years.
Safe delivery in a wooden crate.

• Height: 45 cm (excluding pot)

• Width: 36 cm

• Trunk: 15 cm

• Pot: 7 x 21 x 16 cm

Photos taken in May 2026

About this Chaenomeles bonsai

This Chaenomeles bonsai is a flowering quince with twenty years behind it, and that age shows in every line of the tree. The flowering quince is grown above all for its blossom: cup-shaped flowers in warm reds and corals that open on the bare branches in late winter, before the leaves, when little else has stirred. Two decades of work have given this specimen a trunk with real movement, fine twiggy ramification and the gnarled, slightly thorny character that older quinces develop.

Out of bloom it is still a handsome deciduous tree, with bright green leaves through spring and summer and, on many plants, small hard quince fruits in autumn that scent the room where they sit. It is the seasonal change that makes the species such a favourite for the bench, a tree that looks different in February than it does in July.

A classic flowering bonsai

Chaenomeles has been prized in Japanese and Chinese horticulture for centuries and is now one of the staple flowering subjects in European collections. A twenty-year tree like this one is not a beginner’s cutting but a developed specimen, the kind that takes years to build and rewards the grower with that first flush of colour at the dullest point of the year.

About this specimen

The photographs show the exact plant you receive, pot included. Twenty years have shaped this quince in its own particular way, so the trunk line, the branch structure and the spread of the canopy belong to this tree alone.

A flowering species like this earns its place near eye level, where the blossom can be seen from below as it would be on a full-size tree in an orchard. For many collectors the quince is the tree that marks the turn of the year, the first signal that the growing season is on its way back.