Crab Apple 20/40cm 9cm Pot Malus sylvestris

Malus sylvestris Hedge Plant Description Crab Apple hedging will truly bring your garden to life with its abundance of fruit and flowers. The lovely blossoms have a distinctly summery feel and are very popular with bees. In fact Crab Apples support around 90 different species of insects and birds. Crab apples are edible and look like miniature yellow-green apples, but unlike other apples, they have a very sour taste, so although you may prefer to not eat them raw, crab apples make delicious jelly. The best time to pick crab apples is after the first frost. Tolerant of most soil types, Crap Apple hedging plants grow best in sunny or partially shaded conditions. Commonly planted in mixed native hedges, this resilient hedge grows around 20-40cm per year. Bare root Crab Apple hedging is available from November to late April. When planting these shrubs as bare roots, three plants per square metre is adequate to create a hedge, but five plants is preferable, whilst seven planted in a double staggered row will help to provide a dense hedge at a faster rate. For cell-grown Crab Apple shrubs, which are available all year round, we recommend planting these in a single row with four per metre, or six per metre in a staggered row. *Please note that in accordance with DEFRA regulations, we are unable to dispatch this species to anywhere outside of the UK Mainland.