This is the perfect plant for a low maintenance garden or beginner gardener wanting to experiment with natives.
Use as a tree to add scale and height to a garden, in groupings or tightly spaced in windbreaks.
This low maintenance perennial is a favorite of our designer, Danielle Buesch, because of its unique flower color and its importance to the natural environment as a native.
Characteristics
Height: 18-20’ Spread: 12-15’ Habit/Form: Upright Vase Shape Zones: 4 Growth Rate: Medium
Cultural Requirements
Golden Raindrops is a highly disease resistant species of Crabapple. Tolerant of a variety of soils, it makes a great street tree. However, it does prefer full sunlight and average to moist well drained conditions. It shouldn’t be allowed to dry out. Golden Raindrops is a relatively low maintenance tree, but if there is going to be pruning preformed on it, it is best to do so late winter once all extreme cold has passed.
Ornamental Features
This is yet another all-star for the landscape all season long. Golden Raindrops is a fine-textured elegant crabapple with an upright form. This tree is overflowing with clusters of small white flowers mid-spring, has highly attractive deeply cut foliage in the summer, and an outstanding abundance of yellow fruit into late fall. The yellow fruit makes it a particularly unique accent in the landscape and is attractive to a variety of birds.
Landscape Uses
Golden Raindrops Crabapple makes a great lawn and street tree and with its mature height being only 20’ it lends itself to be a fine choice for planting under power lines. Because of this trees tolerance to different soil conditions, it works well in city conditions also. At maturity it can also serve as nice shade tree in the lawn and with of all its interesting features it makes a beautiful accent anywhere in the landscape.
This is the perfect plant for a low maintenance garden or beginner gardener wanting to experiment with natives.
Use as a tree to add scale and height to a garden, in groupings or tightly spaced in windbreaks.
This low maintenance perennial is a favorite of our designer, Danielle Buesch, because of its unique flower color and its importance to the natural environment as a native.
