![]() ![]() The branch structure itself is quite attractive. The green fruit also starts to brighten up into a bold red, a brilliant contrast for your late summer and early fall football watch parties. Once summer starts to fade, the leaves turn from their rich, green summer foliage into a pretty golden-yellow before leaf drop. The fruit becomes an important decorative accent that adds to the beauty of this wonderful Crabapple selection. Be sure to notice the tiny new green fruits that start to develop. In summer, you'll enjoy lush, dark green leaves. You can imagine they think of them as a flowering landing pad for nectar! Butterflies love these sweet, single petals. Masses of these flowers are held profusely all along every branch. Sweetly fragrant blooms feature a bright yellow stamen in the center. These buds open into a wave of stunning white blossoms. Be on the lookout for them as a sure sign that warmer weather is on its way. Delightful, petite, pink-hued buds swell and grow along the bare branches. Sugar Tyme Crabapple (Malus Sutyzam') has it all, from beauty to adaptability and disease resistance. This white-flowering variety is a plantsman's favorite, for good reason. A four season interest Sugar Tyme crabapple is added.If you are searching for a wonderful specimen tree to highlight your landscape, why not use one of the top-rated varieties? No need to second guess yourself. Go look now and you might find one for 50-75% off. If you are a cheap like me, you will like that Home Depot carries this one in several sizes for cheap prices. Tree has a pretty deep red, persistent fruit through late winter. Sugar Tyme crabapple (Malus ‘Sugar Tyme’) – Fragrant pure snow white flower display from pale pink buds. I highly recommend it if its shape and flower color meets your needs. I have also seen fruit on this tree in February. It has gotten a little scab one year, but that was a horrible year for that disease and most years its foliage is almost perfectly clean. I can say it has been the most disease resistant crabapple I have seen. This just so happens to be a tree I bought for my mother almost 10 years ago. Its shape is irregular and spreading, reaching a height of about 20 feet and spread of 25 feet at maturity. Strawberry Parfait Crabapple (Malus ‘Strawberry Parfait’) – Foliage emerges reddish-purple in the spring and matures to a deep green in the summer. Strawberry parfait crab apple blooms – by Beutifulcataya photostream at Fruit can supposedly last into March, but I would assume most years birds will take care of them earlier than that. Flowers are followed by yellow fruit that hang in clusters along the branches. Pink buds open in spring to fragrant white flowers. It is noted for its white flowers, yellow fruit and good disease resistance. Holiday Gold crabapple (Malus ‘Hozam’)– is a large (18’ tall spreading to 14’ wide) open-rounded and yellow-fruited crabapple. One negative is that it does alternate heavy and light flowers every other year. Smaller size fruit is yellow in fall and turns a deep gold in winter when they feed the birds. Fall color is golden yellow to warm orange. Very fragrant flower for an Apple, which can be smelled far away from the tree. Malus ‘Bob White’ – A large (18-20 feet) rounded form of Crab with pink buds that turn white when fully open. Here are several crabapples that provide good disease resistance and are excellent four season interest trees: ![]() Notable four seasons interest crabapples for the midwest garden For the Midwest landscape, such as my native Chicago area, the majority of crabapples are vastly superior to the cherry trees as landscape plants. Not only are more diseases resistant and hardier varieties of crabapples available, they can be pruned into MUCH nicer shapes. For my money, however the cherry tree has NOTHING on the lowly crabapple in our Midwestern climate. I am often questioned about where the cherries are at our garden and when they are blooming. In Japan the cherry tree blossoms are often revered for being a sign of spring. Photo by wplynn licensed under Attribution-NoDerivs License Crabapple vs. This includes shrubs, specimen trees, small shade trees, etc. Crabapples also come in a variety of shapes and sizes so that they can fit into a variety of spots in the garden and fill many landscape roles. Not only do some crabapples have fabulous spring flowers, some also have other great four season interest attributes such as winter berry’s and even colorful fall colors. Four season interest crabapples for gardens Today, I am going to talk about my favorite type of tree for winter berries, the four season interest crabapple. Number 5 of my 7 pointers was to add plants with colorful winter berries. On my last post, I talked about how to add winter interest to your garden. ![]()
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