I live in Lisbon Falls, Maine and to the best of my knowledge I planted my tree sometime around 2004. I wanted something that would bloss...Read Moreom as much as possible and this tree has more than fulfilled my wildest dreams. What maintenance I've did on it, except at the beginning, amounts to only pruning it. It faces south and has full sun till late afternoon. It has a group of maples on the west side but that has only prevented from growing perfectly straight. I hesitated pruning it for many years because of the many blossoms but now that it's of good size I prune it yearly. It attracts mainly cedar waxwings, robins and cardinals when I can catch them. The waxwings and robins stay for many hours eating the berries. I have photos of it in blossom in both deep red thena few days later in red and white. Love the Tree!!
Planted two twenty feet apart. One is doing fine, one sickened and died after 3 years. The one remaining sent out an assymetrical side ...Read Morebranch I had to lop off. After 5 years the remaining foliage is about 8 ft tall and 7 ft wide.
Scott County, KY (Zone 5b) | April 2007 | positive
Sugar Tyme® crabapple is absolutely one of the top 10 standard size crabapples for the Ohio River valley region and probably most of the...Read More midwest.
Heavy annual white flowers, crisp green disease free foliage, good fall color in yellows and oranges, and persistent small red fruit all winter all make this a crabapple truly for all seasons.
We planted one of these this spring (2006). I chose it because it is rated as having excellent disease resistance. The information I ob...Read Moretained on it says it is an upright, oval, deciduous tree which typically grows 14-18' tall and to 12-15' wide. Pale pink buds open to fragrant, single, white flowers (1" diameter) in spring. Flowers are followed by masses of small, glossy, red crabapples (to 1/2" diameter) which mature in the fall and persist well into the winter. The fruits are attractive to birds. Slender, ovate, serrate, dark green leaves.
I live in Lisbon Falls, Maine and to the best of my knowledge I planted my tree sometime around 2004. I wanted something that would bloss...Read More
Planted two twenty feet apart. One is doing fine, one sickened and died after 3 years. The one remaining sent out an assymetrical side ...Read More
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Sugar Tyme® crabapple is absolutely one of the top 10 standard size crabapples for the Ohio River valley region and probably most of the...Read More
We planted one of these this spring (2006). I chose it because it is rated as having excellent disease resistance. The information I ob...Read More