There is an old farm that has been converted to to a city park many years ago. It's overgrown and filled with tons of different and unique apples and crabapples that i have been grafting and planting at my farm over the past few years. They come in many different shapes and sizes that seem to appeal to wildlife.
This little yellow one has always caught my eye because once the tree drops its leaves it is covered in these bright yellow little crabapples the size of a marble. The birds usually seem to clean the tree off before winter.
Same tree later in the fall from last year
i call this one the Bush Crab mainly because it's really just a big bush.
The bushcrab produces a crab that is about 1" in size.
Right next to the bushcrab i noticed a tree that i've somehow never seen before. It was just loaded with fruit about the size of a marble.
Marble Crab - I grabbed 2 branches and went home and t-budded them even though it's late in the season the bark was slipping so I said what the heck and grafted 2 trees. I'll bench graft a couple more in spring.
Here is another crab i discovered back in august which I also tbudded to 3 rootstocks.
Here's another tree i call the pea crab, this thing holds fruit very late into winter. I grafted a few for the birds and t-budded 2 more trees this afternoon. Fruit is about the size of a pea but it puts out tons of fruit consistently every year that holds long into winter.
Old picture from previous winter
Poor quality picture of a Cortland T-bud from middle of August
