Like many houses in England the house I grew up in has a Privet hedge in the front garden. Among the greenery are the bright red flowers of a Flowering Quince. Not to be confused with Quince Tree this is the shrubby Japanese Quince (Chaenomeles spp.) possibly the cultivar C. x superba 'Crimson and Gold'.

 On the other side of the hedge the view is a bit more 'street'.

 Japanese Quince grows fine as a freestanding shrub but is very amenable to being used as a hedging plant. The hedge has been here well over half a century and the Quince with it; I wonder whether they were planted together or separately? I give the hedge a trim once or twice a year but other than that no maintenance is required.

 Postscript My father notes that he planted the front section of the hedge in the late sixties. He bought a dozen or so bare root plants from a market gardener who had a plot of land not far from the house (now a housing estate needless to say). The side section he planted in the seventies using stems from my grandmother's garden.

 The Quince was already there when my parents moved in so who knows how old it is. It merged with the Privet over time and they continue to co-exist.