Water in well after planting with a liquid seaweed fertiliser.Ĭrab Apple Trees are available from the following nurseries and growers.Dig over and add some well rotted compost.Planting Instructions Malus baccata (Mandchurian Siberian Crabapple) Malus tschonoskii is another upright form.This one will reach around 5 – 7m and is excellent as a landscaping variety, could be used to line a driveway. Spring time sees this tree covered in a mass of white, tinged with pink flowers followed by the large, plum-like, red. Malus John Downie is tolerant of pollution and happy in most soil types including clay.
Malus Trilobata is probably the best upright crab apple with deeply lobed foliage and large white flowers. Crab apple trees belong to the malus family, and because of its long flowering period Malus John Downie is one of the best pollinators for domestic apple trees (Malus domestica).Malus baccata ( Mandshurica Siberian Crabapple ) is another worth looking for.Malus spectabilis ‘Plena’ has large attractive ‘double’ flowers.Malus floribunda ‘Pendula’is the Weeping Japanese Crabapple usually grafted as a standard.Malus floribunda or Japanese Crabapple is very popular with masses of white flowers in spring.Malus ioensis ‘Rubra’ has pink to red flowers.Malus ioensis ‘Plena’ or Bechtels Flowering Crabapple is a favorite white to pink flowering cultivar.New cultivars such as ‘Royal raindrops’ woth its very attractive pink flowers, and ‘Sugar Thyme’ with new pink buds opening to white flowers are well worth looking for. Malus x atrosanguinea is a NZ cultivar and one of the best for fruit, along with the John Downie Crabapple (Malus John Downie) which will reach around 8m depending on the rootstock it is grown on. Malus hupehensis is one of the better pink flowering crabapples.
Reaching around 5 – 6m depending on conditions. Malus floribunda or ‘Showy Crabapple’ is one of the best white flowering varieties (see picture right). Royal Raindrops – A pink flowering Crab Apple Variety. They make a useful spreading small shade tree and many have good autumn colour as well.Ĭrab apples are a tough tree that cope well with a range of conditions and once established require little care or pruning.ĭwarf crab apple cultivars that will reach a maximum or around 3m are also available. Crab Apple Trees (Malus) are valued as a spring flowering ornamental tree, and with some varieties, for the crab apple fruit that is used widely in jams and jellies as well as for apple cider.īoth white and pink flowering varieties are available.
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