My crab apples "Red Sentinel" often linger right through the winter, they cover the tree and look especially good with snow on them, or as here in bright winter sun. You could cook with them but they are beautiful just to look at, and the birds love them when they get very hungry.
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Really nice form and color. I also have a crab with purple leaves. The fruits are pea sized. Crabs are the universal pollinator (which reminds me I don't have one in my orchard).
JackPedigo
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They do make good pollinators, and evemn crabs can be used. These are much bigger than pea sized however at about 2cm or 3/4 inch across.
@Fernapple I think my crab tree is useless. For one thing it has root suckers like crazy. Have you heard of the Centenial Crab? [theappletreeguy.com] It is kind of flat and not gorgeous but a good eating apple. A little smaller than a golf ball.
@JackPedigo Try rooting a cutting if you like the tree, often trees are just graphted by nurseries as a cheap way to increase the stock, many trees will do fine on their own roots. It is getting late now but just take some prunings, of many lengths and sizes, and put them in the ground with just two buds showing. If you take enough some are bound to root, and that way you will almost certainly end up with a new tree that does not sucker.
@Fernapple But will crabs take from a rootstock? I have a plum that I cut from the root and planted it in a bucket. It started to grow but would not bear fruit so I had to graft.
@JackPedigo No not a root stock a cutting from the top.
@Fernapple Interesting, I will try this.
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s the spirit. The birds and deer and small furry creatures need these more than we do. lovely photo.
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