Collection: Crabapple Trees
Ideal for small gardens or growing in pots, crabapple trees produce a spring flower display to rival the showiest cherry blossom and fill your garden with birdsong with their brightly coloured fruits. These native trees attract pollinators, have wonderfully warm autumn colour and even fertilise apple trees, to give you a bigger crop. Our grower in the New Forest has chosen winning varieties that are guaranteed to become a highlight of your garden.
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ÂŁ60Sale price From ÂŁ30'Red Sentinel' Crabapple Tree
Ruby red, jewel-like fruits
- A charming, upright-to-spreading tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 4m
- Clouds of pinkish white blossom in spring
- Award of Garden Merit winner
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ÂŁ60Sale price From ÂŁ35'Jelly King' Crabapple Tree
The best for jam-making
- A proudly spreading tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 4m
- Myriad linen-white flowers appear in spring
- Harvests increase with age
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ÂŁ55Sale price ÂŁ30'Golden Hornet' Crabapple Tree
Glorious bright yellow fruits
- A broad, spreading tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 4m
- White springtime blossom with a hint of pink
- Loved by thrushes and blackbirds
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ÂŁ55Sale price From ÂŁ30'John Downie' Crabapple Tree
An incredibly popular variety
- An oval, spreading tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 4m
- A riot of single, snow-white spring blossoms
- Perfect pectin content for jams
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ÂŁ55Sale price ÂŁ45'Professor Sprenger' Crabapple Tree
Perfect for pollinators
- A rounded, spreading tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 6m
- Scented white blooms in spring
- Golden yellow leaves in autumn
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'Montreal Beauty' Crabapple Tree
Beautiful in every season
- A compact, bushy tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 4m
- Masses of white blossom in spring
- Fruits that look like rosy apple sweets!
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'Evereste' Crabapple Tree
Award-winning and deservedly so
- A lovely, bushy tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 4m
- Dazzling white flowers turning pink
- Good resistance to fire blight
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Purple Weeping Crabapple Tree | Malus 'Royal Beauty'
Pendulous perfection
- A beautifully weeping tree
- Small tree - grows up to 3m
- Single, magenta blossoms in spring
- Perfect for pots and compact gardens
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'Scarlett' Crabapple Tree
Arching boughs, scented blooms
- Delightful spreading tree
- Small tree - grows to 3m
- Fragrant pink blooms, colour-changing foliage
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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'Royal Raindrops' Crabapple Tree
Punchy-pink blossom clouds
- Broadly upright tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 6m
- Deeply-cut foliage with intense pink blooms
- Excellent resistance to scab and rust
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'Wedding Bouquet' Crabapple Tree
Blossoms befitting any aisle
- Graceful upright (to spreading) tree
- Medium tree - grows to 4m
- Ivory white flowers, intensely red fruits
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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'Brandywine' Crabapple Tree
Brill blooms, fab fragrance
- Bushy, spreading tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 6m
- Glorious double pink blossoms
- Radiates a lovely, balanced fragrance
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'Yellow Siberian' Crabapple Tree
Laden with sunshine-yellow fruit
- Picturesque spreading tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 4m
- Intensely vibrant fruits and white blossoms
- Offers a valuable winter food source to birds
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'Comtesse de Paris' Crabapple Tree
Blooms worthy of any noble court
- Regal spreading tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 4m
- Wonderfully fragrant, snow-white flowers
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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'Crimson Cascade' Purple Crabapple Tree
A spectrum of pinks and purples
- Wonderful weeping tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 5m
- Purple to bronze leaves, magenta blooms
- Perfect for a front lawn feature tree
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ÂŁ35Sale price ÂŁ30Patio Crabapple Tree | Malus 'Evereste'
The pinnacle of patio pomes
- Delightful clear-stemmed patio tree
- Small tree - grows up to 1.5m (when pruned)
- Dark green foliage turning orange in autumn
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
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'Sun Rival' Crabapple Tree
The perfect specimen tree
- A beautifully weeping, small tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 5m
- White blooms emerge from carmine pink buds
- Award of Garden Merit winner
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'Profusion Improved' Crabapple Tree | Malus moerlandsii
Like 'Profusion'... but better!
- A vigorous, spreading tree
- Medium tree – grows up to 5m
- Covered in magenta purple blossom each spring
- Displays great resistance to apple scab
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ÂŁ55Sale price From ÂŁ30'Pink Perfection' Crabapple Tree
Double blooms worthy of the name
- A graceful, upright tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 5m
- Delightfully fluffy, double, pink blossoms
- Birds can't get enough of this tree's fruits
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ÂŁ55Sale price From ÂŁ30'Royalty' Crabapple Tree
All hail this regal sensation!
- A tasteful, spreading tree
- Medium tree - grows up to 4m
- Single, burgundy red blooms in spring
- Purple foliage becomes more red in autumn
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ÂŁ55Sale price From ÂŁ50All Seasons Hedging | Growers' Choice
Looks great all year round
- Flowers, berries and vibrant stems
- Packed with colour and wildlife benefits
- Premium varieties handpicked by our grower
- Easy to plant and prune
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ÂŁ60Sale price From ÂŁ55Best Mixed Native Wildlife Hedging | Growers' Choice
An ecological haven
- Packed with colour, flowers & fruit
- Food and shelter for insects, birds & mammals
- UK native varieties handpicked by our grower
- Hardy and easy to maintain
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ÂŁ95Sale price From ÂŁ75A Completely Edible Hedge
Turn your border into a fruit garden
- Packed with fruit, nuts and berries
- Spring flowers loved by pollinators
- Tasty varieties handpicked by our grower
- Hardy, productive and easy to look after
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ÂŁ90Sale price From ÂŁ60Livestock Friendly Farm Hedging | Growers' Choice | BN11 Compliant
Ready-to-go natural barrier
- Benefits domestic and wild animals
- Ideal for farms, paddocks and smallholdings
- RPA and Natural England BN11 compliant
- Easy to plant and maintain
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110 years' expertise free with every tree
Danielle's nursery has been growing trees in the South Downs National Park for over a century, and it shows. Dug up and sent straight to your garden at between 18-36 months old, their quality rootstocks, expert pruning and natural pest control mean that these traditionally field-grown trees are the hardiest you can get.
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Which crabapple tree is best for your garden?
Our crabapple collection includes four RHS Award of Garden Merit winners, including Evereste (large white flowers and red berries) and Sun Rival, a weeping variety. John Downie is our choice for blossom, being covered in clusters of white flowers each spring, while the Japanese Crabapple has fragrant pink blossoms and dark red fruits. Compact Jelly King may be the smallest variety, but is also the best for jam and jelly. To find your perfect crabapple tree, read more about them.

What grows well with crabapples?
Crabapples are joyfully unfussy trees. They grow best in a sunny spot, but will tolerate a little afternoon shade; the soil type doesn’t matter as long as it’s well drained and kept moist. Water your tree regularly for the first year, then leave it to its own devices unless the weather’s particularly hot and dry. Your tree will appreciate a yearly feed and mulch, too. You don’t have to prune crabapples, but if you do, late winter or early spring is the time. Harvest your crabapples between September and November to make crabapple jelly - or leave them for the birds to enjoy.

Growers' tips
Crabapples are joyfully unfussy trees. They grow best in a sunny spot, but will tolerate a little afternoon shade; the soil type doesn’t matter as long as it’s well drained and kept moist. Water your tree regularly for the first year, then leave it to its own devices unless the weather’s particularly hot and dry. Your tree will appreciate a yearly feed and mulch, too. You don’t have to prune crabapples, but if you do, late winter or early spring is the time. Harvest your crabapples between September and November to make crabapple jelly - or leave them for the birds to enjoy.
Crabapple FAQs
Where should I plant a crabapple tree?
The crab apple prefers a sunny, open environment with plenty of space with well-drained, enriched soil.
How do I care for a crabapple tree?
Water your crabapple tree regularly during its first year by maintaining an even moisture over its root zone.
Should I prune a crabapple tree?
In terms of maintenance, crabapple trees are pretty easy to care for and don't need a lot of pruning. Pruning is important for maintaining a tree's shape, removing dead branches, and treating or preventing disease.
When should I plant a crabapple tree?
Trees can be planted bare-root between November and March, and containers can be planted at any time of the year.
How quickly do crabapple trees grow UK?
A crabapple tree will grow around 12 - 13cm per year if it’s receiving the TLC it deserves!
Do crabapple trees lose their leaves in the winter?
It is a deciduous tree, meaning it loses its leaves every year and it is typical for the leaves to turn yellow or brown after the fruit matures and fall completely off the tree by winter.
Are crabapple trees easy to grow?
They certainly don’t ask for much! In terms of size, crab apple trees are quite compact, making them a good choice for smaller gardens and there are also a number of advantages to planting a crabapple, so if you’re undecided here’s 3 reasons why you should go for it: they are a lovely sight, highly productive and great for surrounding wildlife.
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