From Wisconsin orchardist Bill Eubank, this new sour pie cherry has the sweetest tasting cherries we’ve ever sampled. Although, not quite for fresh eating like a ‘Bing’, they are fantastic for jams, jellies, and pies. With its compact size, this is a great tree for the home garden or small orchard.
Long-stemmed, red-fleshed fruits with sugar content halfway between pie cherries and Bing cherries. Pyramidal tree grows to a height of 12 feet. Fruit resembles Meteor but pit is smaller. Blooms in early May.
Malus x ‘Durlawrence’
Courageous Crabapple hits the mark with year-round interest and disease resistance. In spring, the tree is covered in pink buds that transform into fragrant lilac-pink flowers. The new leaves exhibit a maroon appearance before changing to green-bronze in summer. Fall brings yellow-orange foliage, adding another layer of interest to this upright tree. With little to no fruit production, Courageous maintains a tidy look that continues into winter. It is a low-maintenance variety with excellent resistance to fire blight and scab.
Malus x adstringens ‘Durleo’
Gladiator is an excellent ornamental tree with a profusion of bright pink flowers followed by small reddish-purple fruit on a stately, upright crown. Glossy bronze-purple leaves are darker and glossier than Purple Prince, remain lush all season long and are highly disease resistant. Gladiator is an ideal ornamental tree for space-challenged sites including under power lines, as a small boulevard tree or planted in a row for a screen.
Red buds open to fragrant pink flowers which completely engulf the cascading branches each spring. This naturally weeping crab has a habit similar to ‘Louisa’ and burgundy-green foliage like ‘Prairifire’. Attractive dark red fruit lasts into mid-winter. This seedling was found at Beverly Nursery in Indiana.
Ideal for a confined screen or border planting, this excellent rosybloom crabapple was selected by W. L. Kerr, Canada Department of Agriculture, Sutherland Saskatchewan. Foliage is red-purple in spring turning to a green bronze in summer and copper in fall.
This disease resistant cross by Dr. Dan Dayton, University of Illinois, has especially good foliage retention during summer. It blooms later than most crabs. The bark is a glossy dark red with numerous prominent lenticels, and the fruit does not drop. 1996 Iowa Tree of the Year.
Litter is not a problem with this crab, developed by Melvin Bergeson of Fertile, Minnesota, as the small bright red fruit never falls. The fruit does make excellent food for wildlife. The foliage is glossy reddish-green, turning reddish-purple in fall.
Certainly one of the prettiest red-leafed crabapples we’ve seen. Has a better summer color and appearance than most red-leaf crabapples. Abundant magenta-pink blossoms stand out handsomely against reddish-purple, cutleaf foliage. Shows good resistance to fireblight. Developed by J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co
This hardy crab has outstanding foliage. New growth is reddish turning purplish with a green undercast. The leaves have a bright, varnished appearance and nice purple fall color. It was introduced by Sutherland Experiment Station, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
This dwarf spreading crab has attractive lobed, dark green foliage. Fragrant, 3/4 to 1 diameter flowers are pink in bud and open to white. The small bright red fruits are favored by birds.”
Vivid fuchsia-pink flowers are abundantly produced in spring and boldly stand out against the dark foliage. Leaves are dark green with a reddish overlay. Show Time is a vigorous grower with a broad oval to rounded form. Brilliant cherry red fruit follows the blooms, maturing to 1/2 size in autumn.”