Description
Crab Apple Hedging Plants (Malus Sylvestris)
Crab Apple Hedging Plants are fast growing. They can be planted as a stand-alone tree or as part of a mixed hedgerow. Delightful scented pink and white flowers in spring give way to wild crab apples that the birds love to eat. Small green summer leaves turn yellow and then brown in the autumn adding beautiful colour to your hedge.
Key features of our Product:
- Easy to grow as part of a hedge, or as an individual tree
- For any soil type, easy to grow
- Great for coastal areas and damp soil
- Full sun to partial shade
- Hardy and low maintenance
- Lovely blossom in spring
- Crab apples in the autumn
- Very wildlife friendly
Product Details
Crab Apple is fairly fast growing and forms a hedge with lots of tiny twigs and branches. This provides a wonderful native habitat for birds, insects and small mammals.
Crab apple is a wonderful wildlife hedgerow plant with white flowers in Spring loved by Bees and insects followed in early Autumn with small apples – although sour and woody to our taste these are loved by many insects, birds and other wildlife.
Simply choose the height of the plants you want to plant now and the number of plants you need.
We recommend 5 plants per metre in a double zig-zag row for a thick hedge, but you can get away with 3-4 per metre in a staggered row if you don’t mind waiting an extra year or two to form a thick hedge.
Keep them well watered – especially in the Spring and Summer in the first year of planting. If you are not sure how many plants you need or which varieties suit your garden please just contact or call us and we will be happy to offer friendly advice!
For best results plant with Rootgrow gel – it increases the growth rate by up to 50% and really helps the plants establish!
Many apologies but due to a change in the DEFRA plant health regulations following Brexit we cannot ship plants to Northern Ireland – we are working on this and hope a solution is found soon!
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