Gorgeous
£17.00
A new addition to our small selection of crab apples that not only help pollinate other apples but produce a useful crop themselves. Gorgeous produces large, very attractive bright red crab apples that stay on the tree well into November and will produce a pink jelly.
| Rootstock | MM106 maiden (moderate), M26 maiden (semi dwarfing) |
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Harry Baker
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A new variety of Crab apple with green purple leaves and large dark pink flowers. The newly emerging leaves are the darkest purple later becoming dark maroon green. Crab apples are large for a crab being dark ruby red with dark pink flesh that ripen and last into October. A chance seedling on an English nursery and named after a recent Fruit Officer at RHS garden at Wisley, Surrey. Introduced 1995.
Red Sentinel
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A ‘Siberian’ type crab apple which makes it one of the latest ripening of all Crab apples. When other Crab apples have fully ripened in October Red Sentinel’s apples are just developing a red flush. It is not until November that the fruits really become bright red and remain on the tree well into January making for a very attractive display that will provide a winter food for birds. The clusters of medium sized round apples bring the branches down giving it a weeping appearance and restricting its size. Introduced 1959.
Butterball
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Butterball is an appropriate name for this crab apple which we have recently started to grow. The warm butter yellow round apples gain a nice orange flush in the autumn. The abundance of fruit bring the outward spreading branches down to give the tree a weeping appearance. The apples remain on the tree well into the autumn. Easily picked they make a nice amber coloured jelly.
Wisley Crab
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Wisley crab apple has rich pink flowers, purple green coloured leaves and very large, plum-coloured, red-fleshed fruit. Apples are good for jams & jellies with their sweeter taste being less sharp than white fleshed crabs.
John Downie
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Probably the best known of the crab apples. Pink budded white flowers in May followed by conical bright orange and red fruits which are large for crab apples and of good flavour for jellies.
One of the most established crab apples having been around since the late 1800s. A little more susceptable to scab and mildew than some of the modern varieties.
