Malus 'Brandywine' 12L
Product Code: 247483
£79.99
- Common Name: Crabapple
- Other names: Crab Apple 'Brandywine'
- Upright, broad-rounded tree to 6m, with fragrant, rose pink, double flowers in April. The flowers are followed by large, chartreuse coloured fruits. Leaves are dark green tinged with a wine-red, turning reddish-orange to deep purple in autumn.
- Crab Apples are self-fertile, and very useful as pollinators for a variety of fruit trees. Full sun or part shade lover, best grown in fertile, moist, deep, loamy soils. Requires minimal pruning in late winter or spring to remove damaged, diseased or misplaced growth.
- Approx max height: 4.5-6m. Approx max spread: 4.5-6m
- Requires only minimum pruning in late winter to remove damaged, diseased or misplaced growth.
Description
Description
Brandywine is a new crab-apple which features a mass of light pink flowers. Unusually in a crab-apple, many of the flowers are "double", with many more petals than the simple "single" flowers of most crab-apples. As a result the blossom looks more like that of a flowering cherry than a crab-apple, and close up the flowers resemble miniature roses. To add to the spring interest, the blossom also has a rose-like scent. In autumn there is an abundance of small yellow fruits, which are useful for birds but tend to fall quickly from the tree. In fact, unusually for a crab-apple, the main autumn interest is the foliage, which turns from green to orange-red.
