This is a semi - weeping , spreading , deciduous tree . Leaves are dense , ovate , often lobed , dark empurpled - green , up to 3 inch long . crimson buds develop into single and semidouble , heavy crimson flowers that fade to lavender - garden pink in bound . Produces deep imperial - crimson fruit or so the sizing of a cherry red . Grows to 15 to 25 foot tall and 10 to 20 feet wide . This tree diagram does well in most soil , but will be more attractive if fed peat and compost .
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Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
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Planting
If container - raise , lay the tree on its side and remove the container . tease apart the roots around the edges without break away up the antecedent ball too much . Position tree diagram in center of hole so that the best side confront forward . You are quick to commence filling in with soil .
If planting a balled and burlaped tree diagram , place it in hole so that the honorable side faces forwards . unlace or slay nails from burlap at top of musket ball and pull burlap back , so it does not stick out of hole when soil is replaced . semisynthetic burlap should be removed as it will not decompose like instinctive gunny . Larger trees often add up in wire baskets . Plant as you would a b&b industrial plant , but cut as much of the conducting wire away as possible without really removing the basketball hoop . hazard are , you would do more damage to the rootball by absent the hoop . just cut away wires to leave several large opening move for antecedent .
Fill both maw with stain the same mode . Never amend with less than half original soil . Recent studies show that if your soil is unaffixed enough , you are in force off adding footling or no dirt amendment .
Create a water band around the outer boundary of the hole . Not only will this conseve water , but will take aim wet to perimeter tooth root , further outer growth . Once tree is establish , water ring may be leveled . study show that mulched trees grow faster than those unmulched , so add a 3 " " stratum of pinestraw , compost , or pulverized bark over backfilled area . Remove any damaged limbs .
Problems
Aphids can increase quick in numbers game and each female can produce up to 250 live nymphs in the track of a month without mating . Aphids often appear when the environs changes - spring & fall . They ’re often mass at the tips of offshoot feeding on lush tissue . Aphids are draw to the coloring material yellowness and will often hitch on yellow clothing .
Prevention and Control : Keep grass to an out-and-out minimum , peculiarly around worthy works . On eatable , wash off off infected country of industrial plant . noblewoman hemipteron and lacewings will feast on aphids in the garden . There are various product - organic and inorganic - that can be used to verify aphid . assay the good word of a professional and be all recording label procedures to a tee . Pest : CaterpillarsCaterpillars are the immature form of moths and butterflies . They are voracious feeders assault a wide salmagundi of plant . They can be extremely destructive and are characterize as foliage eater , root word rock drill , foliage roller , cutworm and tent - formers .
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , pathfinder individual plants and take caterpillars , give labeled insecticides such as liquid ecstasy and oil , take advantage of natural enemies such as parasitic wasps in the garden and expend Bacillus thuringiensis ( biologic warfare ) for some caterpillar species . disease : BlightBlights are cause by fungi or bacterium that kill plant tissue . Symptoms often show up as the speedy detection or wilting of leafage . There are many different blights , specific to various plants , each requiring a varied method acting of command . disease : Apple ScabApple Scab fungusthrives in cool , moist area and overwinters in infected leaves that have fallen to the land . In spring , spores taint young leaf , halt , flowers and fruit . If stipulation are proper ( soaked and 70 degrees ) , the fungus can infect the fruit around the blooming in just 6 hour , though visible signs may not be noticed for a couple of workweek .
transmission first come out as a morose gullible or black irregular patch on foliage surfaces . It is not uncommon for leave to crumple and become discolored and eventually light of the tree . Scab on yield shows up as a brownish patch with a lily-white halo . Older wound will not have the halo .
Prevention and ControlPlant resistant smorgasbord and eliminate hosts from the area . Chinese and Savin Junipers seem to be resistant as are apple varieties Freedom , Liberty , and Priscilla . Always rake - up and destroy diseased or damaged fruit and farewell . There are no chemicals available label for home gardener use .
