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Crab Apple Trees (Pot Grown)

Crab apples (Malus) are related to the common apple and are grown for their lavish display of spring flowers and edible fruits which can be made into jelly. They are also very useful pollinators as they have a long flowering period and are often interplanted in commercial apple orchards to assist with pollination. Crab apples make ideal specimen trees and are suitable for smaller gardens. Grafted on to M26 semi-dwarfing rootstock, our crab apples will grow 2.4-3.6m (8-12ft) in height and spread. Crab apple trees are 1.2-1.5m (4-5ft) high on despatch. Pot grown trees are available from April to late August.

 

Don't forget to include tree stakes and ties on your order. All young fruit trees require staking and for better establishment we strongly advise using Rootgrow when planting (as recommended in RHS planting guidelines).

 


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(image for) Malus 'Butterball' (Pot Grown)
£59.95Malus 'Butterball' (Pot Grown)This crab apple tree looks stunning in the autumn when its heavily laden branches are glowing with butter coloured fruits that ripen with a red flush. In the spring the tree is smothered in soft pinkish-white blossom. This is an excellent alternative to Malus ‘Golden Hornet’ as it is heavier cropping and more reliable. The fruits are ideal for making crab apple jelly.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'Golden Hornet' (Pot Grown)
£59.95Malus 'Golden Hornet' (Pot Grown)This popular crab apple produces masses of golden conical fruits that persist into the winter when there is hardly any other bright colour about. The large white flowers have a pretty pink blush. An excellent pollinator.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'Gorgeous' (Pot Grown)
£59.95Malus 'Gorgeous' (Pot Grown)This small rounded crab apple tree lives up to its name and is very disease resistant. In spring it produces a mass of scented white blossom, opening from pink buds. This is followed by crimson fruits that resemble the most perfect miniature apples, that hold well into November and are ideal for making a tangy, pink jelly. The dark green foliage is tinted orange-yellow in autumn.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'John Downie' (Pot Grown)
£59.95Malus 'John Downie' (Pot Grown)The most popular crab apple for making jelly. Produces masses of pretty pink budded white blossom in the spring followed by bright red and orange fruits in the autumn that are sweet enough to be eaten raw when ripe. Sold Out 
(image for) Malus 'Montreal Beauty' (Pot Grown)
£59.95Malus 'Montreal Beauty' (Pot Grown)This green-leaved crab apple produces large white flowers followed by large eye catching orange-red fruits that have similar colouring to ‘John Downie’ but are larger and rounder with far better scab resistance. Makes a delicious crab apple jelly. Sold Out 
(image for) Malus 'Neville Copeman' (Pot Grown)
£59.95Malus 'Neville Copeman' (Pot Grown)This magnificent crab apple is very decorative, producing deep pink/purple blossom in the spring, reddish new foliage that matures to green and large plum-sized red fruits in the autumn that can be used to make jelly. Sold Out 
(image for) Malus 'Professor Sprenger' (Pot Grown)
£69.95Malus 'Professor Sprenger' (Pot Grown)This beautiful crab apple rivals some of the flowering cherries for it’s display of fragrant white flowers that open from deep rose-pink buds in the spring. In the autumn the leaves turn yellow but the main feature at this time of year is the mass of very showy yellow-orange fruits that change to orange-red with a pink blush and will hang on the tree until January.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'Red Sentinel' (Pot Grown)
£59.95Malus 'Red Sentinel' (Pot Grown)A lovely crab apple tree of even upright shape with highly decorative glossy red fruits much loved by the birds. A profusion of dark pink buds open in spring to strongly scented white blossom followed by large clusters of cherry-like fruits that hang on the branches well into January and are suitable for making jelly. The fruit-laden branches can also be cut for Christmas decorations. The tree has good scab resistance.Buy Now
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