Crab Apple (Malus sylvestris)

The Crab Apple tree, which is a wild ancestor of the domesticated apple and throughout folklore has been connected to marriage and love. Crab Apple is a beautiful tree all year round. Beginning in spring it blooms with a pink/white blossom alongside a natural aroma. Later in the year its lovely apples begin to mature in late summer or early autumn, with the apples ranging in shade from red to purple or even deep yellow. Due to the Crab Apple's ornamental nature, it can act as a great alternative to Cherry Trees for planting in heavy clay soils as the Crab Apple loves clay soil.

Compact, adaptable, spring-flowering garden trees are crab apples, and they have many benefits. Crab apples yield bright pink, white, or deep red, star-shaped blossoms in the spring. Because crab apples are attractive to pollinators and beneficial insects, and because they produce blooms even on young trees, they are a great option for a fast-growing, dependable tree. Autumn brings plentiful harvests of crab apples, which can be used to make wine and jellies. . Crab apples also have the extra benefit of being self-fertile.

Additionally, they generate about ten times as much pollen as culinary apple varieties and have a long flowering season. This means that one crab apple tree can pollinate all of your culinary apples, regardless of pollination group, and possibly even your neighbours! Before planting, amend the soil with compost, peat, or well-rotted peat, and firmly stake the area.