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Crab Apple Trees (Malus)

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. Unless otherwise stated, Malus are supplied as two year old bare root trees and will be 1.2-1.5m (4-5ft) high on despatch (including the roots). Trees are available from late November to late April.

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' (Crab Apple Tree)
£36.95Malus 'Butterball' (Crab Apple Tree)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 'Evereste' (Crab Apple Tree)
£36.95Malus 'Evereste' (Crab Apple Tree)A very popular crab apple that is very disease resistant. The unusually large soft pink-white flowers open from red buds and are followed by heavy crops of small red flushed orange-yellow fruits that persist well into December and can be used for making crab apple jelly. The tree has a compact conical habit making it an ideal choice for small gardens. The dark green foliage turns yellow-orange in the autumn.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'Golden Hornet' (Crab Apple Tree)
£36.95Malus 'Golden Hornet' (Crab Apple Tree)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' (Crab Apple Tree)
£36.95Malus 'Gorgeous' (Crab Apple Tree)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 'Jelly King' (Crab Apple Tree)
£36.95Malus 'Jelly King' (Crab Apple Tree)This aptly named new variety produces strong white blossom and heavy crops of spectacular large orange-pink fruits that hang on the tree well into the winter months. Makes the most excellent full flavoured pink jelly. Forms a compact tree.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'John Downie' (Crab Apple Tree)
£36.95Malus 'John Downie' (Crab Apple Tree)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.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'Montreal Beauty' (Crab Apple Tree)
£36.95Malus 'Montreal Beauty' (Crab Apple Tree)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.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'Neville Copeman' (Crab Apple Tree)
£36.95Malus 'Neville Copeman' (Crab Apple Tree)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.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'Pink Glow' (Crab Apple Tree)
£36.95Malus 'Pink Glow' (Crab Apple Tree)A more disease resistant alternative to John Downie, this is one of the best early season fruiting crab apples for making jelly and an excellent ornamental. The strong single white flowers are followed by large bright pink fruits that look like plums.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'Professor Sprenger' (Crab Apple Tree)
£40.95Malus 'Professor Sprenger' (Crab Apple Tree)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 'Profusion Improved' (Crab Apple Tree)
£40.95Malus 'Profusion Improved' (Crab Apple Tree)A more disease resistant form of Malus Profusion, notable for its abundance of showy reddish-purple flowers in the spring. The small deep purple fruits hang in clusters like cherries and persist on the tree until late autumn, providing valuable food for birds. The foliage is coppery-red when it first emerges, turning to dark green and then yellow-bronze in the autumn.Buy Now
(image for) Malus 'Red Sentinel' (Crab Apple Tree)
£36.95Malus 'Red Sentinel' (Crab Apple Tree)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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