Flowering or Showy Crabapple
Malus floribunda (ROSACEAE)
Planting and Growing Flowering Crabapple
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow flowering or showy crabapple in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and fruit of flowering or showy crabapple
- Growing conditions for flowering or showy crabapple
- When to plant flowering or showy crabapple
- How to plant flowering or showy crabapple
- How to prune flowering or showy crabapple
- Watering, fertilizing, and care of flowering or showy crabapple
- Landscape uses of flowering or showy crabapple
- Pest and disease control for flowering or showy crabapple
Growing Flowering Crabapple Trees
Many hybrids of slow-growing, spreading, dense, deciduous trees, to 25 ft. (7.5 m) tall, with deep green to purple, fuzzy, oval, pointed, toothed leaves, 2–3 in. (50–75 mm) long, turning brown or red in autumn.
Flowering Crabapple Planting and Care Guide
Flowers and Fruit
Profuse, fragrant, carmine to pink or white flowers, to 1-1/4 in. (32 mm) wide, borne in dangling clusters, in spring, form yellow or orange, round fruit, to 5/16 in. (8 mm) wide, in summer–autumn.
Best Climates
U.S.D.A. Plant Hardiness Zones 5–9.
Soil Type and Fertility
Damp, well-drained soil. Fertility: Average. 6.5–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Full sun. Space 15 ft. (4.5 m) apart.
Proper Care
Easy. Allow soil surface to dry between waterings until established. Fertilize quarterly spring–autumn. Prune in autumn. Protect from sun in hot climates. Propagate by budding, seed.
About This Species
Good choice for accents, backgrounds, containers, fencelines, screens in cottage gardens. Fruit attracts birds in winter. Blight, mildew, rust, scab susceptible. Choose disease-resistant hybrids.