Crabapples

Cooking with crabapples is a lost art. Our great grandparents always had at least one, often more, crabapple trees in the orchard for pickles, jelly and spicing up sauce or cider. Several of our crabs are highly decorative: large showy white or pink flowers with many highly colored fruits clustered on the branches. Generally decorative crabs (Dolgo Prairie Fire, Red Vein) have dwarf growth habits making them easy to fit into the garden landscape.