NOUN
- any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries
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- Plant prickly hedges such as pyracantha, holly or hawthorn to deter thieves and add sturdy trellis to fence panels to make fences more difficult to climb over. IcNewcastle
- Other more widespread common species include Putterlickia pyracantha, Rhoicissus tridentata, Grewia accidentalis, Phyllanthus verrucosus, and the grass Panicum maximum. Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
- Many birds love berries of barberry, beautyberry, cotoneaster, currant, elderberry, gooseberry, holly, mahonia, mountain ash, nandina, pyracantha, and strawberry tree (not all plants grow in every zone).
- The waxwings' rather unusual speciality is supermarket car parks because of the owners' tendency to plant cotoneaster, pyracantha or non-native rowans that are heavy with red berries. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
- Pyracanthas have three seasons of interest but here they are augmented by a climbing rose in a suitably harmonious shade.
- Wall shrubs including pyracantha or ornamental quince can be trained and get less out of control than some vigorous climbers.
- GREAT morning glory photo, and mg climbing on pyracantha – delicious! Sad To See Summer Go – Say Hello To Fall « Fairegarden
- The pyracantha bushes flaunt the screaming orange berries, the deciduous hollies sport sparkling red ones on bare stems.
- Sitting under a rose and clematis arbour in one area, you see through a lunette in a pyracantha hedge to a pond, encircled by lavender, heleniums, hemerocallis, gaillardias and calamintha.
- To encourage them, provide bird-friendly seed-bearers such as teasels, honesty and sunflowers, and those that provide autumn berries, including pyracanthas and hawthorns.
