Crabapple Pre-Espalier Trees in Bloom - May 2022
Last Summer, we planted a pair of Sugar Tyme Crabapple trees on the side of our house - the south side that gets a lot of sun - right up against the foundation. I watered them in a bit, but we were (mostly) past the heavy heat of the Summer (mid-September is when they went in), so I kind of let the trees just figure things out on their own. I didn't train these very hard last Fall because of that. I left them as is and didn't prune anything off of them. I did, however, put a couple of limbs out horizontally with some light bamboo poles, but otherwise didn't touch them. Earlier this Spring, there was a peek at one of them (naked) in this Disneyland Rose protection post from mid-March . What happened this Spring? They woke up. And put on a really nice show. Pink buds opened up to white flowers with pink centers clustered all over both trees. See below for a pair of pre-espalier crabapple (Sugar Tyme - Malus 'Sutyzam') trees . This post is going up on May