There are hundreds of choices when picking a crabapple tree from the nursery, but an expert says only a handful are resistant to a widespread fungus or other serious diseases. There are hundreds of ...

There have been reports that 2024 has been a bad year for apple scab in both fresh-eating apples and crab apples. Apple scab infections on fruit start off olive-green and turn into a rough, cork-like ...

Every year, my crab apple loses all of its leaves, but my neighbor's looks great. What am I doing wrong? You could be following your neighbor's lead and doing everything they are doing and still fail ...

Q: Can you tell me what is wrong with my crab apple tree, and what I should do about it? The leaves started turning yellow earlier this summer and now there are hardly any leaves left. It looks awful.

The problem with many plant diseases is once you notice them it’s often too late. That’s especially true with our trees. We often don’t gaze at the canopies of our trees looking for problems. The ...

You may wonder why your crabapple tree, which was gorgeous this spring, is now losing most of its leaves this summer. Now that you think about it, you remember it seems to do this every year. What ...

It is nearly time to begin spraying crab apples that are susceptible to apple scab (typically this disease affects older varieties of crab apples). If your tree's leaves become covered with black ...

Q. For as long as I can remember, the crab apple tree in my backyard has developed spots on the leaves. Most years, the infected leaves fall off in summer. Some years, I sprayed a preventive fungicide ...

A. Your tree could have apple scab, a fungal disease that commonly affects crab apples. The disease first starts as velvety black spots, and leaves eventually yellow and drop. It rarely kills a tree, ...

In the past week or so, crab-apple trees have stolen the spring flower show among our blooming landscape plants. These beautiful trees produce abundant flowers for up to four weeks each spring, with ...

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 ...

There are hundreds of choices when picking a crabapple tree from the nursery, but a Purdue University expert says only a handful are resistant to a widespread fungus or other serious diseases. After ...