Crab apple Evereste is delightful small tree with a broadly conical outline, dazzling large white flowers in April, opening from scarlet buds fading to pink. Dark green deciduous leaves change to a yellow bronze in autumn followed by wonderful red-flushed, orange yellow crab apples, often remaining on the bare branches into winter. The fruit can be used for jellies and sauces.

Crab apples give year-round pleasure, provide shelter and habitat with their nectar, pollen and seeds. The flowers and fruit being very helpful to wildlife, bees, beneficial insects, birds and butterflies/moths. Drought tolerant, grow in sun or partial shade in moist well-drained moderately fertile soil. Loam chalk sand and clay.

Cultivation: Good for smaller gardens, city, country, courtyard & cottage

Soil: Moist, fertile, well drained. Loam, clay, chalk, sand

Position: Sun, partial shade. All aspects

Foliage: Deciduous, dark green change to yellow bronze in autumn

Flowering: Beautiful large flowers in April

Fruiting: Red-flushes, orange yellow crabs in autumn

Habit: Broadly conical

Hardiness: Broadly conical

Growth: Vigorous

Benefits to Wildlife: Excellent

Height & Spread in Maturity:  5-6m x 4m

History: Malus Evereste was named after Eve Reste, not the mountain! And has the RHS Garden of Merit.