Flower Crabapples: A Baker's Dozen

Article by: William Henry

Plant 'em if you've got 'em. If you don't have 'em, get 'em. They are not referred to as "Jewel of the Landscape"Â by accident. Those wonderful ornamental flowering , Gardening Soil crabapples offer a distinct landscape , Fiberglass Pond Liners feature for every single season, , How To Brighten Up Your Home With These Flower Arrangement Ideas are easy to grow, , Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit generally require little maintenance and somewhere at a local , Using the Right Hedge Trimmers in Lawn Care nursery or garden , Straw Bale Culture Technique center there is one with your name on it.

First, let's chat a bit about crabapples. Both apples and crabapples are in the rose , Fiberglass Pond Liners family (Rosaceae) and the genus, Malus. This is where size really matters. Trees , Gardening Soil that produce fruit , Mix Perennials into Your Garden for Staying Power in excess of two inches in diameter are considered to be apples. Trees , Roman Concrete - How They Did It that produce fruit , Online FTD Florists two inches or less in size are considered crabapples.

There are several wonderful varieties of crabapples such as Dolgo and Hopa that do produce fruit , For Lighting Fixtures and Landscape Lighting Get Solar Power Installed large enough for nibbling on and which are more frequently used for making jelly. What we will be sharing in this article, however, is information , Landscaping Lighting Techniques about a baker's dozen of my favorite ornamental crabapples. Here we go.

1. Malus 'Adams' (Adams Crabapple) has a rounded shape with a mature height of approximately 25' and spread of 20'. It is adorned with pink flowers, , Gardening Soil orange to red fall , How to Choose a Pond or Fountain Light color and Ã‚Â½"Â to 5/8"Â red fruit , Harvesting Herbs which holds well into the winter. , Flower Bulbs: Nature’s Greatest Gift Considered hardy in zones 4-7, it also has good disease , Companion Planting resistance.

2. Malus 'Indian Magic' (Indian Magic Crabapple) is somewhat vase shaped in form, with a height of 18' and spread that is similar. It has red buds , Landscape Wallpaper that open to deep pink flowers, , Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit and has glossy orange to red Ã‚Â½"Â fruit , Patio Cover Designs that persists all winter. , A Touch of Feng Shui in the Garden The foliage is dark green, , 10 Excellent Tips on Successfully Planting Your Trees and or Shrubs turning orange to reddish in the fall. , Gardening Soil This one is disease , Roman Concrete - How They Did It resistant and considered hardy in zones 4-7.

3. Malus 'Donald Wyman' (Donald Wyman Crabapple) exhibits a rounded form at maturity with a height and spread of approximately 20' each. It has large white flowers, , Patio Covers 3/8"Â red fruit , Improve Garden Soil with Cover Crops which persists well into the winter, , How to Build Fences and glossy green summer , Lawnmowers and How to Save Work Installing Synthetic Turf on Tennis Courts foliage. Hardy in zones 4-7 it has excellent disease , 10 Excellent Tips on Successfully Planting Your Trees and or Shrubs resistance.

4. Malus 'Liset' (Liset Crabapple) is an 18' high by 15' wide spread and has a dense rounded form. Its flowers , How to Build Fences are a deep red color, , Using the Right Hedge Trimmers in Lawn Care the foliage is shiny purplish, and the fruit , Straw Bale Culture Technique is Ã‚Â½"Â red to maroon in color. , Landscaping Lighting Techniques It is very disease , A Couple of Good Places to Buy Lawnmowers resistant and rated for zones 4-7.

5. Malus 'Pink Spires' (Pink Spires Crabapple) is one of my favorites where space is limited, because it is upright in form and only has a 12' spread. It can even be used in boulevards for this very reason. It ultimately attains a height of 20', has profuse pink flowers , Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit and small, dark red fruit. , 10 Excellent Tips on Successfully Planting Your Trees and or Shrubs The foliage is reddish in the spring, , 10 Excellent Tips on Successfully Planting Your Trees and or Shrubs becoming green , Bring the Smell of Nature into Your Home with These Fragrant Flowers to bronze during the summer. , Teak Furniture for Your Garden: Add a Touch of Something Spectacular This crab has great hardiness, being rated for zones 2-7.

6. Malus 'Profusion' (Profusion Crabapple) becomes a 20' high tree , Harvesting Herbs with a 25' spread at maturity. It exhibits bronze foliage in the spring, , Adding a Water Feature to Your Yard becoming more green , Mix Perennials into Your Garden for Staying Power over time. The flowers , How to Choose a Pond or Fountain Light are reddish with a pink , Improve Garden Soil with Cover Crops center and the fruit , Sampler of Rare s for Fun or Profit is a deep red. It has shown good disease , Online FTD Florists resistance and is rated for zones 4-7.

7. Malus 'Red Jade' (Red Jade Crabapple) is my favorite of all the crabs. It reaches a maximum height of 10' with a spread of 12', has a distinctive weeping form and extremely interesting branching habit. Although a zone 4-7 tree, , How to Build Fences I have one that is doing famously here in the northern reaches of zone 3. With a little protection from the winter , Wild Flower Garden - Make Amends...Your Plants Will Love It winds and rabbits, it has been a real success story for us. In addition to its branching characteristics it exhibits white , Hydroponics Lighting: Blue Spectrum V.S. Red-Orange Spectrum to pale pink flowers , A Touch of Feng Shui in the Garden and nice green summer , Fiberglass Pond Liners foliage. As I now look out my window , How To Brighten Up Your Home With These Flower Arrangement Ideas on this mid-January morning, I observe the small red fruit , A Quick Guide To Yard Bridges contrasting with the fresh snow. , Gardening Soil This crab really makes a statement along the edge of an ornamental pond , Harvesting Herbs or waterway or in a secluded courtyard.

8. Malus 'Red Splendor' (Red Splendor Crabapple) has an upright spreading form with a height and spread both of 20'. It is adorned with single pink flowers, , How to Choose a Pond or Fountain Light small red fruit , Landscaping - Maintaining A Landscaped Garden persisting through the winter , How to Select a Really Good Water Hose and foliage that turns reddish purple in the fall. , Fiberglass Pond Liners A zone 3-7 tree, , How to Select the Best Hammock it has shown excellent disease , 'Northern Encore' Tree Rose resistance.

9. Malus 'Royal Gem' (Royal Gem Crabapple) has a very small and compact form with a height and width both being 5' - 8'. This zone 3-7 variety has red flowers, , Why Should You Own a Greenhouse? yellow fall , Patio Cover Designs color and great disease , A Quick Guide To Yard Bridges resistance. Because of its small stature it makes a great accent or specimen plant. , Using the Right Hedge Trimmers in Lawn Care

10. Malus 'Royalty' (Royalty Crabapple) displays a height and spread each of 20' and an upright rounded form. Its flowers , Bring the Smell of Nature into Your Home with These Fragrant s are dark red, the fruit , How to Select a Really Good Water Hose deep red and up to Ã‚Â¾"Â and it has glossy red to purplish foliage all summer. , Gardening Soil This zone 3-7 tree , Vegetable Garden Layout is very hardy and also blight resistant.

11. Malus sargentii (Sargent Crab) is a very small spreading crabapple with dark green , Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit foliage, fragrant Ã‚Â¾"Â flowers , How to Build Fences with red buds , Wild Flower Garden - Make Amends...Your Plants Will Love It opening to white. , Improve Garden Soil with Cover Crops The small red fruits , Lawn And Garden Detergent, or Garden Soap, or hold on until the birds , How to Choose a Pond or Fountain Light get them. It achieves a height of up to 8' and a spread of 15' or more. A zone 4-7 plant , A Touch of Feng Shui in the Garden it is one of the very best specimen crabapples available.

12. Malus 'Snowdrift' (Snowdrift Crabapple) is one extremely hardy hombre that will brighten any yard. , How To Brighten Up Your Home With These Flower Arrangement Ideas It has been a favorite of mine for many years, displaying pink buds , For Lighting Fixtures and Landscape Lighting Get Solar Power Installed opening to masses of white flowers, , Lawnmowers and How to Save Work Installing Synthetic Turf on Tennis Courts has glossy green summer , Landscaping - Maintaining A Landscaped Garden foliage and small orange to red fruit , Finding the Right Landscaping Company which holds well into the winter. , Online FTD Florists Its zone 3-7 hardiness makes it very useful in the north country.

13. Malus 'Spring Snow' (Spring Snow , Companion Planting Crabapple) is an unusual variety in that it does not fruit. , How to Build Fences It attains a mature height of 20' with a spread of 15', is somewhat upright in form, has pink buds , Patio Covers opening to white flowers , Patio Cover Designs and has glossy green summer , Fiberglass Pond Liners foliage. Although a zone 4-7 tree, , Six Good Reasons For Going Organic I have used it with good results in zone 3. It displays good heat , Bring the Smell of Nature into Your Home with These Fragrant Flowers tolerance as well as disease , For Lighting Fixtures and Landscape Lighting Get Solar Power Installed resistance.

While there are many other nice crabapples to select from, this is a pretty good list to start with. Grace your yard , Mix Perennials into Your Garden for Staying Power in the spring , Gardening Soil with those beautiful , Teak Garden Furniture: A Natural Extension of the Home blooms, in the summer , Gardening Soil with the developing fruit , Sampler of Rare s for Fun or Profit and lovely foliage, in the fall , Patio Covers with the changing colors , Improve Garden Soil with Cover Crops and mature fruit, , For Lighting Fixtures and Landscape Lighting Get Solar Power Installed and winter , Wild Flower Garden - Make Amends...Your Plants Will Love It brings a wonderful view of the branching structure, the persistent fruit , Flower Bulbs: Nature’s Greatest Gift and if you are lucky a visit by the Bohemian or Cedar Waxwings. If you don't already have a flowering , Roman Concrete - How They Did It crabapple, by all means bring home , Gardening Soil one of these orphans from your local garden , Using the Right Hedge Trimmers in Lawn Care center. You will be glad you did.

William Henry is a co-owner of Gizmo Creations LLC, a landscape , Adding a Water Feature to Your Yard and website design , Online FTD Florists company, located in the Brainerd Minnesota Lakes Area. Henry is a licensed landscape , Teak Garden Furniture: A Natural Extension of the Home architect and has over 20 years of landscape , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 15) Ozone design experience. For more articles on landscape , Lawn And Garden Detergent, or Garden Soap, or design and a forum where you can post your questions on landscape , Teak Garden Furniture: A Natural Extension of the Home design and plants , Patio Covers go to Gizmo's website at http://www.gizmocreations.com

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