Louisa

Louisa is one of the best weeping crabapple varieties, and its attractive sweeping shape makes it a good choice as a small feature tree in a lawn or front-garden.

The blossom is light pink, and the small autumn fruits are yellow.

Our 2-year pot-grown trees are likely to produce blossom in the first spring after planting. We sometimes have "top-worked" forms of this variety, grafted on a clean stem to enhance the cascading effect of the weeping branches.

Louisa crab-apple trees for sale

• 11-year bare-root tree £44.00
  Small size (1.5m-2.5m after 10 years)
  

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• 22-year pot-grown tree £72.00
  In a 12L pot
  Small size (1.5m-2.5m after 10 years)
  

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Order now for delivery from week commencing 6th January.

How to grow

Louisa is one of the most disease-resistant of crab apples for the UK climate. Cropping is light by crab-apple standards.

If you wish to have more control over the height at which the branches start to weep, we sometimes have 1-year bare-root trees of this variety. These can be trained up to about 2m or more using a heavy-duty bamboo cane, giving a bit more height than we usually aim for with our container-grown trees. Don't cut the main stem back at the time of planting (as you normally would with a 1-year bare-root tree).

After a while you may notice the branches grow long enough to start trailing on the ground. If you don't like this you can prune the branches back by about 30cm on a mild day in the winter.

Louisa characteristics

• Gardening skillBeginner
• Attractive featuresAttractive flowersAttractive fruitAttractive tree / plantScented flowers
• Growth habitWeeping
• Height after 10 years2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
• PruningLight prune
• Growth rateAverage
• WildlifeAttractive to birds
• Flower colourPink - light
• Leaf colourGreen
• Fruit colourOrange
• Annual cycleDeciduous

Similar varieties

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  Malus x purpurea
  Crimson Cascade
  A new weeping crab-apple with dusky pink blossom and small dark red fruitlets.
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  Malus
  Royal Beauty
  Royal Beauty is a compact weeping crab apple with crimson blossom and small crimson berry-like fruitlets.

What will it look like?

Illustrative example of a pot-grown tree of this variety as supplied. Approximate girth: 6/8cm. We try to keep all pot-grown trees down to about 1.5m as supplied, but some may be larger. Trees should reach their mature height after about 10 or more years. We may also have 1-year bare-root trees of this variety - they are not shown here.

How to choose a crab-apple tree

We list more than 40 different crab-apple trees. Choosing can be difficult! See our article explaining the different characteristics of crab-apple trees which will help you narrow down the selection.