RECOMMENDED ADD-ON - We highly recommend this product be purchased alongside any order for plants, to ensure that they get the best start in your garden.REQUIRES A SINGLE APPLICATION - Rootgrow only needs to be applied once, a single treatment will generally last the entire lifespan of your plants.INCREASES UPTAKE OF WATER & NUTRIENTS - Plants treated with Rootgrow develop a secondary root system, with the express purpose of seeking out new sources of water and other key nutrients that are required to keep your plants happy and healthy.Once applied your plants will begin to thrive better than before, improving plant establishment and subsequently bettering flowering and fruiting. The Malus ‘John Downie’ ticks all the right boxes as the perfect ornamental tree for your garden. It is delightful to look at all year round, it attracts masses of wildlife, requires little maintenance and offers an abundance of delicious crab apples.
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In spring, April to May, an abundance of ‘Apple Blossom’ white flowers that open from pink buds adorn the tree. This vigorous crab apple flowers and fruits best in full sun and the foliage turns wonderful shades. They attract bees and birds, making it a useful pollinator for other apple trees if you are thinking of creating a small orchard in your garden. The foliage of the tree is a mid-green that turns to stunning shades of yellow, bronze and orange in the autumn. The main feature of the John Downie tree are the fruits which are large, plum-like, red and yellow flushed apples. This is a very prolific variety, and a great pollinator of other of apples, nearing fine ornamental conical fruits that are. A very attractive crab apple grown for its flower and fruit. The wonderful crab apples remain on the branches long into the winter, ready to be picked and pulped into fresh apple sauce or desserts for the Christmas table. Unlike normal apples which are round, the fruits tends to have a slightly elongated pear-shape. In spring a sheet of pink and white blossom, in autumn a mass of. They mature early in autumn but last well into the winter, keeping the interest going when other plants are stark and bare. The tree thrives well in fertile, well drained soil.
It is upright in shape and fairly narrow, making it ideal for smaller gardens. When it reaches maturity it will arch, reaching an estimated height and spread of 5 x 3 metres in 20 years. The John Downie is one of the most popular crab apple trees. Green foliage changing to yellow and orange in Autumn. Excellent fruit crops of large bright orange/red fruit, suitable for Crab Apple Jelly.
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