Crabapple Trees: A Guide to Common Crabapple Varieties
Popular and versatile trees that require little upkeep, crabapples enhance the garden’s beauty throughout the year. However, choosing a crabapple tree can be difficult because of the wide variety of sizes, shapes, colors of the fruit, leaves, and flowers that this adaptable tree offers. Continue reading to find out how to choose crabapple trees for landscaping.
Popular Types of Crabapples
There are crabapple trees that bear fruit as well as those that do not. Although the majority of flowering crabapples bear fruit, some cultivars are nearly fruitless. Here are a few popular varieties of crabapples to select from
Crabapples that are in season
Golden Hornet: This upright variety bears greenish yellow fruit after white to pale pink blooms. Fall brings a yellowing of the medium green foliage.
Snowdrift: Pink buds open to white blooms on this rounded form. Its leaves are an autumnal bright yellow, followed by orange fruit.
Sugar Tyme: This crabapple tree has deep red crabapple fruit and pink flowers with an oval-like shape. In the fall, it also turns from green to yellow. Another rounded variety, Sparkling Sprite has yellow to golden orange fruit and a striking deep red fall foliage.
Donald Wyman: This rounded crabapple tree bears red fruit early in the season and white blooms before turning a golden yellow in the fall.
Sargent Tina (Dwarf): This round, dwarf form might be the ideal tree for you if space is at a premium. It’s a striking specimen with bright red fruit that follows gorgeous red spring blossoms.
Callaway: An oval-shaped crabapple with red fruit that also blooms white, this variety has colorful fall foliage in shades of yellow, orange, and red.
Adams: The Adams crabapple bears glossy red fruit and deep pink flowers in a rounded to pyramidal shape. Its reddish-purple foliage eventually turns green and orange-red in the fall.
Anne E: This is a weeping variety that bears beautiful pink blossoms, bright red fruit, and yellow foliage in the fall.
Cardinal: Rose-colored flowers and deep-red fruit with an upright form. In autumn, the foliage changes from reddish purple to red-orange.
Ellen Gerhart: This upright crabapple tree is another well-liked variety with bright red fruit and pale pink blossoms.
Brandywine: Pretty pink blossoms give way to greenish yellow fruit on this rounded variety. Its reddish-green foliage will also appeal to you. In the fall, it turns orange and yellow.
Centurion: This is a columnar crabapple with red fruit and rosy-red blooms. Fall foliage can range in color from reddish green to yellow-orange.
Cinzam (Dwarf): This dwarf-rounded variety also bears golden yellow fruit after white blossoms.
Velvet Pillar: An upright crabapple tree with maroon-colored fruit and pink flowers. The leaves turn shades of orange-red and purple in the fall.
Adirondack: The fruit of this oval-shaped crabapple is orange-red, and it blooms pure white. Fall hues range from a mottled green to a yellow tint
Unfruitful Cranberries
Merilee: White blossoms adorn this crabapple variety, which is narrow and upright. Deep pink flowers bloom on a rounded, medium-green tree known as the prairie rose. Spring Snow: An oval-shaped variety with blooms that are completely white.
