John Downie is a well known old variety of crab apple It has pink buds followed by white flowers The fruits are conical bright orange and red which are large for crab apples and of good flavour for jelly Crab apples are lovely ornamental trees The blossom is prolific and the small apples are abundant giving beautiful autumn colour They are self fertile but will pollinate other apple trees and the fruit can be made into crab apple jelly A guide to pollination groups Crab apples are self fertile so do not need a pollinating partner however they themselves are good pollinators of other apple varieties A guide to rootstocks Fruit trees are grafted onto rootstocks which determine the vigour and eventual size of the tree M9 dwarfing 225m planting distance between trees 25m M26 semi dwarfing 2635m planting distance between trees 4m MM106 all purpose 3755m planting distance between trees 5m M25 vigorous 565m planting distance between trees 10m PLEASE SEND YOUR INQUIRY FOR OUR BEST PRICES WHOLESALES PRICES
