Malus Red Jade - Weeping Crabapple Tree
When people ask us for help with choosing a weeping crab apple, Red Jade is invariably the tree we suggest. It stands out from most of its cousins because its foliage, fruit and flowers are draped on a frame of weeping branches that look beautiful, take up less space in your garden and, once the tree is mature, provide a yearly opportunity to lie down and relax directly under a thick canopy of flowers. The blossoms are extremely profuse with some variance in the colour of the petals, which break from pink buds and become mostly white, some flowers retaining more of their pink pigment. A thriving tree in bloom will be almost entirely swallowed up in flowers that nearly reach down to the ground.
Malus Red Jade's other great feature is its fruit, which are as plentiful as the flowers, bright red and hang very tightly on the branches, giving you something nice to look at well into winter. If the tree is in a sheltered spot, there may still be one or two left hanging on when the tree starts to wake up in spring. Reaches 4 metres.
Like most crab apples, Red Jade will be happy in any soil type that has decent drainage, which includes heavy clay that is on a slope, ridge or other spot that doesn't trap water. If you want to use it to pollinate apple trees, it will be a good match for any trees in the Early or Mid-Season categories of the Apple Tree Pollination guide.
If you are unclear about the way standard trees are sized, take a look at our Guide to Standard Tree Sizing or you can go back to our main standard trees page.
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