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What plants/Bushes go well with Malus 'red jade'? Kirsty, Malus "Crab Apple" would normally stand alone as with all apples they do not like competition for water at their roots.My Malus stood alone until it got too big for its boots and got the chop

This time of year the crab apples are at their most impressive: the trees are laden with little yellow or red apples that hang on until long after the last leaves have fallen. These are really useful smallish trees, not just for their colourful

is one of the most challenging apples to grow well.  Commercial growers spray and spray and spray again. Maybe not the best choice for the amateur.  The best apples to grow are not usually the ones you can find with ease in the supermarket. Last year

We would like to grow some apple trees in our garden. We would like three sweet ones. Anyone have any favourites? Why is your post headed 'Rootstock?'  The rootstock governs the eventual height and spread of the tree.  Sweet apples can be on any

I would like to grow gooseberries but don't have the room to grow them in the ground. Do they grow well in pots and if so what is the best variety? hi monty i would really like a good self pollinating apple and a cherry as well as your plum

Apple and pear scab is most prevalent in mild, damp seasons. The fungus overwinters on fallen leaves in the form of spores, which can be splashed by rain or carried in the wind to infect newly emerged shoots in spring. Overwintering can also occur

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We moved into our house 2 years ago and have a rather unusal apple tree. It grows straight up like a column, is probably about 8ft tall and has 4 or 5 main branches all growing straight up with short spurs coming off them. It is no more than a metre

.It didn't last in my garden. Planted new variety last winter called Hertfordshire Russet. We let it grow three apples to taste and they were the best ever. Look forward to next season Storing apples. I think Monty missed a trick on GW on 7.10.11. Most

I've had a Weeping Japanese Crab Apple for so long it cheered up; the branches grow sideways instead of down giving it a lovely shape. Every year marauding squirrels strip off bunches of red apple supporting twigs, split open the small apples