In May, medium-tall trees bear prolific small blooms of various shades of white, red and pink that elicit a smile even from the crabbiest of humans. They’re called crabapple trees, and they’re easy to ...

Related to roses, crabapple trees have clusters of spring flowers made up of five, often slightly cupped petals which are followed by small apple-like fruits. Crabapples are distinguished from eating ...

Q. I have a suggestion for people who dislike the fruit falling from ornamental flowering crabapple trees, especially along city boulevards. I had this problem with a tree in my yard, but I love the ...

We have a prairie fire crabapple tree that has very severe splitting in almost all of the major branches. There is some evidence of old bark splits that have healed over that we did not notice until ...