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Crab Apple 'Red Sentinel' Standard

Enjoy a springtime aroma of blossom
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1 x 3L Pot - SKU: 510943
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Key Features

  • A wonderful Crab Apple tree with attractive, gnarled branches
  • Beautiful pinkish-white blossom, sweet fragrance, and plump, round, cherry red fruits
  • Source of food for wild birds, and bees and other beneficial insects love the gorgeous blossom
  • Supplied as a 90cm tall standard tree, including 3L pot
  • Will grow to approx. 3m (10ft) in 10 years if left unpruned. Fully winter hardy
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Description

A wonderful standard Crab Apple, Red Sentinel's attractive branches burst with beautiful pinkish-white blossom throughout spring, filling your garden with lovely sweet fragrance They really do flower their socks off in spring, and are an excellent source of pollen to pollinate nearby apple trees too, a method often used in commercial orchards. Beautiful and useful too!

The flowers are followed in autumn by plump, round, brightest cherry-red fruits that deepen in colour as they remain on the tree right into the winter. Once the leaves have dropped off, and the red fruits remain, it takes on a unique quality and appearance.

Fashioned by our expert growers into a beautiful standard tree with a lollipop head, 'Red Sentinel' is ideal in sunny beds and borders where it will create a striking feature tree. Perfect for pots on your patio, it's incredibly easy to care for – prune to size just once a year in early spring, they are also totally winter hardy anywhere in the UK!

The miniature fruits are ornamental, and should not be eaten. What's more, this tree is perfect for nature lovers, as any fruit will provide a plentiful source of food for wild birds.  Bees and other beneficial insects will love the gorgeous blossom they will be helping to pollinate your whole mini-orchard!

Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come.

Supplied as a standard lollipop tree, 90cm tall (inc 3L pot) ready for planting out or potting on.

 

Top Tips
Keep well watered, and if growing in a pot, use a good quaity, soil-based compost.
Care Information
  • When planting incorporate lots of well-rotted garden compost in the planting hole and stake firmly.
  • Easy to maintain, pruning is just a case of removing dead, diseased and crossing branches in late winter, while the tree is still dormant.
  • Make sure you keep potted plants well fed and watered.
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Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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