Crabapple trees are available in nearly 35 varieties, with flowers and fruit that vary in color and size. Gord Nickel shows you the dazzling Maypole Crabapple, a vigorous tree that grows quickly and produces stunning amounts of blossoms.

Video Transcription

(Background Music) Well, have you ever gone into a garden center looking for maybe one fruit tree and come up with three or four because the sales man told you, you need to pollenize for them all? Well, if you were looking for apple trees, I may have solution for you. This is called a Maple Crab Apple Tree and because of the long blooming cycle bid it has, it can actually pollenize many of the apple varieties that are out there. The first thing, about that you will notice is this wonderful almost sort of pinky color full flower that on this. But realistically, this has a number of assets. The first one is, it has a sort of reddish color leaf that comes out early in the spring, followed by this beautiful flowers and then about mid in September, you will going to have a Crab Apple that is fully develop and ready to turn into beautiful Jelly. Now, if you have got a lot of space, the nice thing about this particular one it is a colon A type which means it is going to grow on the single stock to about 8 feet in the first five years and maturing to about 12 feet after another five years. It like a sunny location, rich soil, maybe well drained and if you want you can actually it a park. So if you are looking for something that is going to give you good pollenization, long flowered color and something maybe a little unique for your patio, you may want to try the maple.