5 Gal. Summer Wonder Pink Flowering Crabapple Tree

The Summer Wonder is a unique flowering tree with purple leaves that hold their color all summer long, even in hot areas. This is the only crabapple to offer the combination of pink flowers and purple foliage. It reaches 20 feet tall with a rounded form. Very cold hardy flower buds burst open in early spring to masses of rose red blossoms that mature to cherry red fruit in fall. It has remarkable resistance to all the major apple diseases, including apple scab, which causes yellowing and falling of leaves in summer, powdery mildew, which coats the fruit and leaves in unsightly white powder, and the deadly fireblight disease. While Crabapples are not typically a food crop, the fruit is used in jellies and added to other apple varieties in cider. Crabapples are great pollinators for apple orchards due to their abundance of blooms. The tree attracts birds and butterflies. It is hardy in USDA Zones 4-8 and shipped in a #5 pot with an average tree height of 2 ft. to 3 ft.