![]() Ideal for parks and new housing developments for families to enjoy picking the fruits and their seasonal features. The wonderful crab apples remain on the branches long into the winter, ready to be picked and pulped into fresh apple sauce or desserts for the Christmas table. This Pectin is also what gels sugar, making jams and jellies without the need for animal gelatine. ![]() These apples are very flavoursome and have higher levels of the starch Pectin, making them firm and crunchy. During the late summer, the John Downie provides an abundance of large fruit brushed with the colours of rich marmalade and vibrant red. During the late summer, the John Downie provides an abundance of large fruit brushed with the colours of rich marmalade and vibrant red. The summer foliage is a pleasant glossy green, which mellows into buttery yellow as the summer fades. They are popular for bees, encouraging pollination of other Apple trees and plants in the area. The fruit makes a very good crab apple jelly and is often grown for this purpose. These are tinged with wonderful shades of water-washed pink and subtle lilac from the still opening buds. At the end of Spring, this Malus produces beautiful white flowers that envelope the entire canopy. Profuse white blossom opens from pink buds in April and May is. The tree is bushy with a shapely oval head, and the green leaves develop yellow, red and orange tints in autumn. This charming Malus is perhaps one of the most popular due to its fruit. Perhaps the best fruiting crabapple, Malus ‘John Downie’ is a vigorous, small deciduous tree, valued for year-round garden interest and the quality of its fruit. The fruit is large and orange/red in colour, proceeded by pretty white. He named the tree after his good friend and fellow nurseryman John Downie in his honour. Crab Apple 'John Downie' Malus Hardy Tree FROM 39.99 94 (7 Reviews) Garden Club Members Price: FROM 35. John Downie is the most popular crab apple tree variety for making crab apple jelly. Edward enjoyed the flavoursome taste of the fruit, leading to its commercial supply. Water in well after planting with a liquid seaweed fertiliser.Ĭrab Apple Trees are available from the following nurseries and growers.Raised by Edward Holmes at Whittington, England during the 1870s.Dig over and add some well rotted compost.Planting Instructions Malus baccata (Mandchurian Siberian Crabapple) First boil the crab for about 7 minutes per pound in a covered pot and then rinse in cold water until the crab is cool enough for you to handle. apple John Downie John Downie is a vigorous small deciduous tree with an ovoid crown and profuse white flowers opening from pink buds. Malus tschonoskii is another upright form.This one will reach around 5 – 7m and is excellent as a landscaping variety, could be used to line a driveway. Malus Trilobata is probably the best upright crab apple with deeply lobed foliage and large white flowers.Malus baccata ( Mandshurica Siberian Crabapple ) is another worth looking for.Malus spectabilis ‘Plena’ has large attractive ‘double’ flowers.Malus floribunda ‘Pendula’is the Weeping Japanese Crabapple usually grafted as a standard.Malus floribunda or Japanese Crabapple is very popular with masses of white flowers in spring.Malus ioensis ‘Rubra’ has pink to red flowers. John Downie is a vigorous small deciduous tree with an ovoid crown and profuse white flowers opening from pink buds. ![]() Malus ioensis ‘Plena’ or Bechtels Flowering Crabapple is a favorite white to pink flowering cultivar.New cultivars such as ‘Royal raindrops’ woth its very attractive pink flowers, and ‘Sugar Thyme’ with new pink buds opening to white flowers are well worth looking for. Malus x atrosanguinea is a NZ cultivar and one of the best for fruit, along with the John Downie Crabapple (Malus John Downie) which will reach around 8m depending on the rootstock it is grown on. Malus hupehensis is one of the better pink flowering crabapples. Pink buds open to white apple blossum in spring followed by large green/yellow, flushed crimson crab apples. Reaching around 5 – 6m depending on conditions. Malus floribunda or ‘Showy Crabapple’ is one of the best white flowering varieties (see picture right). Royal Raindrops – A pink flowering Crab Apple Variety.
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