Clay is a challenging growing medium for trees due to compaction and drainage issues. Luckily, some trees can tolerate and even thrive in the harsh conditions.

Q: I am hoping to plant two semidwarf crabapple trees on the west side of my house. Could you please tell me which cultivars will do well here? I am looking for crabapples that are good for raw ...

Pausing under a crab apple tree in full bloom is like standing beneath a living, breathing, buzzing firmament - one that happens to be pink (or white, coral or rose). Hundreds or even thousands of ...

From lime green to deep red, from honey-sweet to fragrantly spicy to face-puckering sour, from the huge globes of baking apples to tiny crab apples that dangle like jewels among the falling leaves,… ...

The Prairie Crabapple grows wild from Indiana to Wisconsin, south to Oklahoma and Arkansas, with semi double pink flowers that fade to white on low bushy trees. A charming variety of the Sweet ...

Our charming little tree is native to the Southeast, ... Crabapple’s sweet blooms bear a sour fruit. John Nelson. Guest Columnist. Petruchio: “Nay, come, Kate, come: ...

Q. Is there a way to keep sweetgum and crabapple trees from bearing fruit and creating so much debris for me to clean up? -- R. L. in Spokane Answered by Mark Bernskoetter, Master Gardener of ...