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'Sun Rival' Crabapple Tree

The perfect specimen tree

Grown by John

South Downs National Park

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'Sun Rival' Crabapple Tree Ornamental Trees
'Sun Rival' Crabapple Tree Ornamental Trees

£28

£36

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The highlights

  • A beautifully weeping, small tree
  • Medium tree - grows up to 5m
  • White blooms emerge from carmine pink buds
  • Award of Garden Merit winner

Description

  • This Weeping Crab Apple tree willl bring you joy throughout the seasons
  • White spring blossom with a slight tint of pink emarges from carmine pink buds
  • Come autumn and the crown will display bright red crab apples, attracting out feathered friends all the way through to winter
  • Graceful weeping habit
  • Holds the RHS Award of Golden Merit
  • Grows to 5mx4.5m making is perfectly suitable for small gardens
  • Easy to maintain and hardy tree, thriving in all moist and well-drained soils
  • Our potted trees are supplied in EcoPots™. Eco pots use 70% less plastic and are fully recyclable, unlike normal single use pots. They flex and so produce less root spiralling and travel better in the post.MORE
  • Our trees are usually between 18 and 36 months old at the time of dispatch.
  • Our trees are professionally pruned before dispatching. This formative pruning can involve cutting the main leader, if the expert tree growers decide this will produce a better shaped tree. This can stop the tree becoming "leggy", and promote stronger, bushier growth.MORE
  • Please note that young trees often don't have a weeping shape, particularly when they arrive early in the year after being pruned - but hold tight and that unique form will develop over time

What To Expect

Supplied as:

Bare Root Tree
9L Eco Pot
This tree is supplied in a 9L Eco Pot, which is approx D15 x H30cm. Eco Pots use 70% less plastic then traditional pots and can be recycled easily. A 9L pot allows ample space for good root development and can support a good size tree.

Height on arrival:

90-120cm inc. roots
120-150cm inc. pot

Eventual height:

5m
5m

Eventual spread:

4.5m
4.5m

Time to first crop:

Flower colour:

White
Pale pink buds transforming to white blossom comes spring
White
Pale pink buds transforming to white blossom comes spring

Habit:

Weeping
Weeping

Hardiness:

Fully hardy
This tree is fully hardy, meaning it will survive under any condition including the occasional snowy winters in the UK
Fully hardy
This tree is fully hardy, meaning it will survive under any condition including the occasional snowy winters in the UK

Rootstock:

Spacing:

How To Grow

Average Pest/ Disease Resistance

May need protection from aphids, woolly aphid, fruit tree red spider mite and caterpillars. It could also be affected by apple scab, apple cranker and powdery mildews. Be cautious of fire blight.MORE

Full sun

This crab apple tree loves full sun or partial shade or a sheltered locaton allowing all the nutrients to create blossom in your garden. When choosing a spot away from strong winds, it will allow all the resources to go towards growing the blossom and protection of its display.

Happy in most soils

Those trees will flourish in moderately fertile,moist and well drained soil but for chalk

Little or no pruning required

Crabapples create a well branched framework naturally, so little or no pruning is required.

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South Downs National Park

Meet John

110 years' expertise free with every tree

John’s family have been growing trees in the South Downs National Park for over a century, and it shows. Dug up and sent straight to your garden at between 18-36 months old, their quality rootstocks, expert pruning and natural pest control mean that these traditionally field-grown trees are the hardiest you can get.

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