Misc	RHS AGM, Edible Fruit / Nuts, Pollinator, Self fertile, Wildlife Value
Area	Frost Pockets, Scotland & The North
Soil	Poor/Dry
Type	Screening
Also Good	Autumn Colour, Berries
Flowering	May

Malus sylvestris John Downie (Standard)

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SIZES	1-2	3-9	10+
1/2 Standard	Plenty of Stock£27.49	Plenty of Stock£25.49	Plenty of Stock£24.49
6/8 std Bareroot	Plenty of Stock£38.91	Plenty of Stock£35.91	Plenty of Stock£32.91
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Crab Apple, John Downie - Standard needs...

Buckle and Strap Ties
Buckle and Strap Tree Ties Rubber strap with buckle & buffer. Buffer prevents tree from rubbing

From £2.28
Stakes - Tree Planting
Tree Stake - 150cm x 5cm Rounded & treated. Necessary for all standard ornamental trees. Also fo

From £6.96
Tree Planting Pack
All the accessories you need to plant a large tree, i.e. any Ornamental Standard or Bush or Half-Sta

From £10.19
Rootgrow Afterplant Tree & Shrub
Mycorrhizal fungi enriched plant food for use as a tonic or topdressing for established plants. At p

From £6.95

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Malus John Downie Standard Trees

Malus John Downie crabapple trees are attractive and heavy cropping plants that produce some of the best yields of crabapples for use in the kitchen. They are commonly planted in orchards and their narrow canopy makes them a great specimen tree for a small garden. John Downie has abundant white blossom in mid-late spring and good red-gold autumn colour. It is a vigorous tree, but is naturally tidy. The long, conical, bright red-orange fruit are some of the prettiest of any crabapple tree. They can either be left on the branches for their ornamental value, or used to make crabapple jelly, apple sauce or pressed and blended with the juice of other apples to make cider.
John Downie is one of the best pollinators for apple orchards, along with Golden Hornet. It can reach a height of about 8 metres.

Browse our variety of crabapple trees or see our full range of trees for sale.

How Standard Trees are Measured:
All the plants in the ornamental trees section are graded as standards, which means that they are measured by their girth in centimetres 1 metre above ground level (basically, their trunk's waist measurement). They aren't measured by their height, which will vary. So, a 6/8 standard has a trunk with a circumference of 6-8 centimetres and an 8/10 standard has a trunk 8-10 centimetres around. This measurement makes no difference to the tree's final height.
Standard trees are 2 - 3.5 metres tall (on average) when they arrive; they are the most mature trees that you can buy from us. We cannot tell you precisely how tall your trees will be before we deliver them.

History & uses of Malus John Downie

This tree was bred in the 1870's by Mr E. Holmes and he named it after his friend, who was a Scottish nurseryman. It has won both the RHS Award of Garden Merit and and Award of Merit for displays of its cut flowers.

Read our full terms and conditions here.

Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (Orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) £7.20 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Standard box (Bareroots up to 1.2m) £11.40 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Large box (Pots up to and incl. 7.5L) £15.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £100 inc VAT)
Trees & Hedging (Bareroots & trees 1.2m+) £18.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £120 inc VAT)
Pallets (Root balls, large pots, trees etc) £60.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £240 inc VAT)

Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

John Downie Crabapple, Large Trees

Malus sylvestris John Downie (Standard)

Buckle and Strap Ties

From £2.28

Stakes - Tree Planting

From £6.96

Tree Planting Pack

From £10.19

Rootgrow Afterplant Tree & Shrub

From £6.95

Hornbeam

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Apple Trees - Bramley's Seedling

From £18.95

Amelanchier (Juneberry)

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Guelder Rose

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Malus John Downie Standard Trees

History & uses of Malus John Downie

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

John Downie Crabapple, Large Trees

Malus sylvestris John Downie (Standard)

From £2.28

From £6.96

From £10.19

From £6.95

From £1.56

From £18.95

From £3.48

From £2.28

Malus John Downie Standard Trees

History & uses of Malus John Downie

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?