Ruby Tears Weeping Crabapple Tree

Loaded with pink blossoms in mid spring and burgundy foliage keeps the interest all season long.

Ruby tears weeping crabapple tree.

Naturally weeping branches are a hallmark of this lovely variety. Mike talks with alec about the new ruby tears crabapple trees. Draped in clusters along the cascading branches they provide a wonderful floral display. It also has disease resistance so it looks good all year and makes a beautiful accent tree.

Ruby tears flowering crab is a dense deciduous dwarf tree with a strong central leader and a rounded form and gracefully weeping branches. Pink spring blooms burgundy green foliage and bright red fruit make this a show stopper. 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. Ruby tears is an exciting new crabapple tree with a dramatic broadly weeping habit burgundy flushed spring foliage and raspberry pink blossoms that fade to a soft pink.

About ruby tears crabapple. Hardy to 30 f maximum elevation. Topping out at a mere 10 with a slightly wider spread ruby tears sports pools of luminous pink blossoms in early may backed by colorful foliage on naturally weeping pendulous branches. A small graceful crabapple with a weeping habit and all season interest.

Planting trees and shrubs in clay or sandy soil. Get one right now at frattallone s ace hardware and garden stores. The crabapple comparison chart is a list of common crabapple trees grown at johnson s nursery. Crabapples are versatile smaller ornamental trees used in landscapes and vary in shapes and sizes such as dense rounded low spreading upright oval columnar and weeping.

The flowers are followed by abundant dark red fruits that persist. Naturally weeping form similar to louisa and burgundy green foliage much like prairifire. 22 001 ruby tears crabapple zone. 3 8 small weeping form with pink flowers burgundy tinted foliage and small red fruit.

We almost forgot the ruby red crabapple fruits that give this tree its name and bring the songbirds to your yard each winter. A seedling found at beverly nursery in indiana. This smaller more confined weeping crabapple selection is proof that big landscape presence can come in smaller packages. Smaller size makes it a perfect ornamental choice for the garden.

Opening from red buds masses of fragrant pink blossoms appear in mid spring just as the foliage is unfolding. Malus ruby tears is a dense deciduous tree of rounded form with gracefully weeping branches over a long season of interest.