![]() Tip for harvesting: The ripe fruit drop easily from the tree, so as soon as you see one fall, put a tarp on the ground and shake the tree. It is one of the best pollinators for apple orchards, along with Golden Hornet. Suitable for large containers designed for trees. Bright red-orange fruitĪny well drained soil. Colour: White blossom in late April-May.Use: Specimen, edible fruit, small garden, urban.All our bareroot trees are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured). If instant impact is your priority, or if you are only buying a few plants for use in a place where it is convenient to water them well in their first year, then you may as well use bigger ones. Half standards will reach approximately 4 metres.īrowse our variety of crab apple trees, or our range of ornamental garden trees.ĭelivery season: Crab apple trees are delivered bareroot during late autumn and winter, approximately November-March inclusive.Ĭhoosing a size: Small trees are cheaper, easier to handle and more forgiving of less than ideal aftercare, so they are best for a big planting project. Vigorous yet naturally tidy, it can reach a height of about 6-8 metres. They don't remain for long on the branches when ripe, which is fine because they make great crab apple jelly or apple sauce, and can be blended into a cider brew. The long, conical, bright red-orange fruit are some of the prettiest of any crab apple. It has abundant white blossom in mid-late spring and good red-gold autumn colour. They are commonly planted in orchards and their narrow canopy makes them a great specimen tree for a small garden. John Downie crab apple trees are attractive and make heavy crops of some of the best crab apples for use in the kitchen. Malus John Downie: Bareroot John Downie Crab Apple Trees in Standard Sizes Both bareroot and pot grown roses are pruned down to about 30cm high (excluding our standard stem/tree roses) before we deliver them. All other soft fruit: 1-2 year old plants, graded by pot size unless sold bareroot.Īll of our named rose cultivars were budded or grafted 2 years before you receive them.Strawberries: Last year's rooted runners.Raspberries: Bareroot canes, pruned to 40 cms.Soft Fruit Sizes:īerry bushes aren't measured by height: some of them need to be chopped back before delivery, and some are just very small by nature. You can read about the rootstocks we use for our fruit trees here. A wonder tree is a specific style of dwarf tree that uses both a dwarfing rootstock and a high graft point to create a tree form that is small, very low maintenance, and aesthetically pleasing. Suitable apple & pear varieties are also sold as ready-made cordons: as long as it is a spur bearing variety, you can turn any maiden into a cordon very easily.ĭwarf fruit trees & Wonder trees: A small selection of fruit trees are available in dwarf forms that are ideal for growing in large pots and small gardens. If you want to grow fans or espaliers, which we don't deliver, you need to begin with a maiden. It has not formed significant branches yet. The maiden is the smallest, youngest fruit tree you can buy.This matures into a more compact tree, about 3 metres high. ![]() The bush is like a half-standard, with a trunk about 60cms tall that then splits into the main branches.The half-standard is the largest, has a straight trunk of about 1.20 metres, a branched head, and will mature into a tree about 4 metres high. ![]() Most of our fruit trees are sold bareroot, in 3 sizes. As a rough average for most trees, a 6/8 standard is over 2 metres tall, and an 8/10 standard is between 3 and 4 metres, but it depends on the tree. Larger bareroot trees are called Standards, referring to the standard 'waist measurement' of their girth in centimetres at 1 metre above ground level.Ī 6/8cm standard tree has a trunk that is between 6 and 8 centimetres in circumference, one metre from the ground. ![]()
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