Height: 20 feet
Spread: 6 feet
Sunlight:
Hardiness Zone: 2
Other Names: Roseybloom, Crabapple
Brand: Jefferies Nurseries
Description:
A beautiful and hardy cultivar with a narrow columnar habit; covered with abundant white blooms in spring; tiny red fruit is small, persistent, and adds ornamental value for fall and winter; an excellent vertical landscape accent; disease resistant
Ornamental Features
Green Wall® Flowering Crab is bathed in stunning clusters of fragrant white flowers along the branches in mid spring, which emerge from distinctive pink flower buds before the leaves. The fruits are showy red pomes carried in abundance from early fall to mid winter. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy pointy leaves turn an outstanding coppery-bronze in the fall.
Landscape Attributes
Green Wall® Flowering Crab is a dense deciduous tree with a strong central leader and a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
This tree will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It is a good choice for attracting birds to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.
Green Wall® Flowering Crab is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Accent
- Vertical Accent
- Hedges/Screening
- General Garden Use
Planting & Growing
Green Wall® Flowering Crab will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 6 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.
This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.