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Crabapple Trees

Crabapple trees are seriously underrated! Ideal for small gardens or growing in pots, they produce a spring flower display to rival the showiest cherry blossom, and will fill your garden with birdsong with their brightly coloured fruits. These multi-season native trees attract pollinators, have wonderfully warm autumn colour and will even fertilise your other apple trees, giving you a bigger crop. Our tree grower in the New Forest has a real soft spot for crabapples, and has chosen winning varieties that are guaranteed to become a highlight of your garden.

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?

A crabapple tree is a must for your wildlife garden, and pairs nicely with other compact native trees like hazels and rowans. All of these trees can also be used as hedging. Underplant your crabapple with bulbs, flowering shrubs such as oleaster, aucuba and escallonia or shade-tolerant perennials like heuchera, sedum or ferns for a natural woodland look. Winter flowering plants like hellebores are also a good choice for underplanting deciduous trees, as they’ll bloom when the tree’s leaves have fallen.

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.

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Evereste Crabapple Tree

Superb display of large white flowers and red fruit

1 option from from £40.00
  • Dazzling amount of white flowers turning pink
  • Very attractive red berries ideal for birds or jelly
  • Popular for its fire blight resistance
  • Proudly holding the RHS Award of Golden Merit
'Red Sentinel' Crabapple Tree

White blossom and ruby red fruits

2 options from from £35.00
  • Ruby red, jewel-like fruits for jelly, jam and cider
  • Clouds of white blossom in spring
  • Attracts wildlife to your garden
  • RHS Award winner
A Completely Edible Hedge | 3/5/10/20m Packs
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A Completely Edible Hedge | 3/5/10/20m Packs

Turn your hedge into a fruit garden

4 options from £110.00 £95.00
  • Everything you need for a natural looking and productive edible hedge
  • The best variety of colours, heights and types for a 5m or 10m hedge
  • Hardy, easy care plants with wildlife appeal
  • The hedge that gives you fruit, nuts and berries!
Best Mixed Native Wildlife Hedging | Growers' Choice
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Best Mixed Native Wildlife Hedging | Growers' Choice

Create the ultimate wildlife-friendly hedge

4 options from £75.00 £60.00
  • The best selection of UK native plants for maximum wildlife appeal
  • The best variety of colours, types, flowers and fruit for a 5m or 10m hedge
  • Provides food and shelter for insects, birds and small mammals
  • Plant in full sun or partial shade and any well drained soil
'Profusion Improved' Crabapple Tree | Malus moerlandsii

Purple flowered crabapple with real wildlife appeal

1 option from from £34.00
  • Covered in magenta purple blossom each spring
  • Warm gold and bronze toned foliage in autumn
  • Small purple crabapples are a favourite with garden birds
  • A compact tree to enhance any garden
John Downie Crabapple Tree

Flavoursome plum-sized crab apples

1 option from from £42.00
  • Abundance of plum-size orange fruit ideal for jams
  • Ideal for attracting pollinators
  • Blossom of delicate white flowers in the spring
  • Mid-green foliage turning into autumnal shades
'Jelly King' Crabapple Tree

If you want to enter the jam-making business this tree is for you

1 option from from £50.00
  • The Jelly King best for jelly making
  • Fruit lasting all the way to December
  • Harvest will increase as the tree ages
  • Beautiful display of pale pink flowers
'Professor Sprenger' Crabapple Tree

Perfect for Pollinators

1 option from £55.00
  • White blossom unfurling from deep pink buds
  • Golden yellow leaves in autumn
  • Red-orange fruits make outstanding jelly
  • RHS Plants for Pollinators
'Sun Rival' Crabapple Tree

Beautifully weeping small tree

1 option from from £50.00
  • Beautiful display throughout the seasons
  • White spring blossom emerging from carmine pink buds
  • Come autumn red crab apples will appear until winter
  • Grows to 5mx4,5m perfectly suitable for small gardens
'Royal Beauty' Weeping Crabapple Tree

A compact weeping tree with all year round colour

2 options from from £50.00
  • Spectacular purple-red blossom in spring
  • Colour changing foliage with warm autumn tones
  • Attracts bees, butterflies and birds
  • Suitable for growing in pots
'Pink Glow' Crabapple Tree

Masses of blossoms flushed with pink

2 options from from £50.00
  • Scented white flowers with a pink blush
  • Large pink crabapples ideal for cooking
  • Golden yellow autumn foliage
  • RHS Plants for Pollinators
All Seasons Hedging | Growers' Choice
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All Seasons Hedging | Growers' Choice

The hedge that looks great all year round

3 options from £100.00 £80.00
  • Create a colourful hedge with spring and summer flowers, autumn berries and vibrant winter stems
  • The best variety of premium plants for a 5m or 10m hedge
  • Hardy, easy care plants with wildlife appeal
  • Easy care - plant in full sun or partial shade and any well drained soil
'Pink Perfection' Crabapple Tree

Practically perfect in every season

2 options from from £42.00
  • Soft pink, fragrant double blossoms
  • Small red fruits throughout autumn and winter
  • Perfect for a small garden, in a spring border with bulbs
  • Attracts bees, butterflies and birds
Livestock Friendly Farm Hedging | Growers' Choice | BN11 Compliant
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Livestock Friendly Farm Hedging | Growers' Choice | BN11 Compliant

Easily create a livestock friendly hedge

4 options from £90.00 £60.00
  • Ideal for farms, paddocks and smallholdings
  • The best variety of premium plants for a 5m or 10m hedge
  • Hardy, easy care plants to benefit domestic and wild animals
  • Conforms to RPA and Natural England BN11 requirements
Japanese Crabapple Tree | Malus floribunda
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Japanese Crabapple Tree | Malus floribunda

Impressive rich pink flower canopy

0 options from £35.00
  • Profusion of fragrant, single, pale pink blossom
  • Small 1.2cm fruits can be used to make jellies
  • Year round interest with flowers,fruit and foliage
  • Fantastic specimen tree for your garden
Royalty Crabapple Tree
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Royalty Crabapple Tree

Royal red foliage and flowers

0 options from £36.00
  • Deep purple-red flowers in mid spring
  • Purple foliage turns red in autumn
  • Deep red cherry-like fruits
  • Easy maintenance
'Montreal Beauty' Crabapple Tree
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'Montreal Beauty' Crabapple Tree

Beautiful in every season

0 options from £70.00
  • Masses of white blossom in spring
  • Bronzed yellow foliage in autumn
  • Yellow fruits with a red blush
  • Attracts pollinators and garden birds
European Crabapple Hedging | Malus sylvestris
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European Crabapple Hedging | Malus sylvestris

A wildlife haven with year-round interest

0 options from £5.00
  • Pink blossom in spring, edible fruit and autumn colour
  • This deciduous hedge is ideal as part of a mixed wildlife-friendly native hedge
  • Average growth rate - expect 20-40cm per year
  • Grows to 5m, easily maintained at 1-5m
'Golden Hornet' Crabapple Tree
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'Golden Hornet' Crabapple Tree

Bears bright golden fruits

0 options from £50.00
  • Highly ornamental tree
  • Attractive to wildlife
  • Eye-catching bright golden fruits
  • White blossom with a hint of pink

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