Crab Apple Bonsai Tree
The crabapple bonsai is a deciduous tree but will surprise you throughout the year with its changing colours shades and blooms as the seasons progress.
Crab apple bonsai tree. Suitable for informal upright slanting semi cascade twin trunk and clump. Crab apple malus deciduous tree with many varieties producing blossom coloured from white through to pink. The flowering crabapple bonsai tree is one of the most sought after and valued flowering miniature tree thanks to its spring blossoms. Crab apple prefers deeper pot than normal.
Fruit can hang on the tree until some time after leaves have fallen. Therefore your bonsai must be maintained in a cool cold environment during the winter season. The crab apple is a popular flowering bonsai tree bearing small fruits in autumn. A crabapple bonsai is a living miniature tree and not a house plant.
As a guide around thanksgiving day it is time to prepare your bonsai for its winter dormancy period which should last approximately three 3 months. They are covered with beautiful flowers in early spring before the foliage appears and little green apples appear in summer ripening to all different colors in the fall when the foliage. However there are a few species of crab apples that are particularly well suited to being grown as bonsai specimens. The malus sylvestris and malus cerasifera species are most commonly used for.