Malus Butterball
Crab Apple

Description

Features:
✓ Clusters of pink buds that open to simple, white flowers in spring
✓ Small, slow-growing tree
✓ Excellent, medium-sized yellow crabs in autumn
✓ A good variety to make crab apple jelly

'Butterball is a fantastic Crab Apple variety with a mass of pink buds in spring, that open into white blossom,  that is sometimes flushed with pink. Large, yellow Crab Apples develop in late summer into autumn and can be used for culinary purposes or just left on the tree to give interest and food for wildlife throughout winter. It will grow up to 4m high by 4m wide. Butterball will tolerate most conditions, in full sun or partial shade.

Don't forget to consider:
Tree Stakes to support the tree - buy here.
Tree Belting to secure the tree to the stake supports - buy here.
Tree and Shrub Compost to add a layer of good soil in the planting hole - buy here.
Mycorrhizal fungi to encourage strong, new roots - buy here.