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Callaway Crabapple tree for sale at Advanced Nursery Growers in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, featuring white spring flowers and attractive red crabapple fruit.

Callaway Crabapple

Advanced Nursery Growers

$20.00

Buy Callaway Crabapple trees for sale at Advanced Nursery Growers in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.

Callaway Crabapple is an excellent Southern-adapted flowering and fruiting crabapple valued for its beautiful spring bloom, attractive red fruit, disease resistance, and wildlife benefits. UF/IFAS considers Callaway one of the best crabapples for the South, making it an especially interesting choice for landscapes and orchards in North Florida and the surrounding Gulf Coast region.

In spring, attractive pink flower buds open to masses of white blossoms, creating a beautiful display while providing an early food source for bees and other pollinating insects. The tree develops relatively large reddish crabapples, approximately 1 inch in diameter. UGA describes Callaway as a rounded tree reaching approximately 15–20 feet tall and wide.

The fruit adds colorful fall and winter interest and is also valuable to wildlife. Callaway fruit can remain on the tree into winter, where birds and other wildlife may feed on it.

Callaway is an especially useful choice for homeowners who want a tree that combines ornamental beauty, pollinator value, wildlife benefits, and crabapple fruit. It works well in home orchards, edible landscapes, pollinator gardens, wildlife plantings, cottage gardens, and as a small specimen tree.

Because Callaway is a diploid crabapple, it produces viable pollen and may also help pollinate compatible apple varieties when their flowering periods overlap. As with any apple pollination combination, bloom overlap is important, so it should not be considered a guaranteed pollinator for every apple variety.

Plant Details:

  • Plant Type: Deciduous flowering and fruiting crabapple tree
  • Botanical Name: Malus × ‘Callaway’
  • Common Name: Callaway Crabapple
  • Mature Size: Approximately 15–20 feet tall and 15–20 feet wide
  • Growth Habit: Rounded, medium-growing tree
  • Sun: Full sun for best flowering and fruit production
  • USDA Zones: Well adapted to much of the South; UF/IFAS specifically recommends Callaway as one of the better crabapples for Southern landscapes
  • Chill Hours: A dependable cultivar-specific chill-hour figure is not commonly published; Callaway is selected for Southern adaptation rather than promoted by a specific chill requirement
  • Bloom Time: Spring
  • Flowers: Pink buds opening to white flowers
  • Fruit: Relatively large reddish crabapples, approximately 1 inch in diameter
  • Fruit Season: Fall, with fruit often persisting into winter
  • Pollination: Diploid; another compatible apple or crabapple with overlapping bloom can improve fruit production
  • Apple Pollinator: Can provide viable pollen for compatible apple varieties when bloom periods overlap
  • Wildlife Value: Excellent; flowers support pollinators and persistent fruit provides food for birds and other wildlife
  • Disease Resistance: Considered disease resistant and particularly well suited to Southern landscapes
  • Soil: Performs best in fertile, well-drained soil
  • Water: Regular watering while establishing; avoid consistently waterlogged soil
  • Landscape Uses: Home orchard, edible landscape, pollinator garden, wildlife planting, cottage garden, specimen tree, and orchard companion

North Florida Growing Note: Callaway Crabapple is one of the crabapple varieties we consider particularly promising for North Florida. UF/IFAS specifically identifies Callaway as one of the best crabapples for the South, and its reported disease resistance is an advantage in our warm, humid climate.

Pollination Note: Callaway is a diploid crabapple and may be useful as a pollen source for compatible apple trees that bloom at the same time. For the most dependable apple production, choose pollination partners based on overlapping bloom periods.

Local Pickup & Limited Shipping

Local pickup is available for most plants and trees at our nursery in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.

Limited shipping may be available for select trees, liners, and smaller plants in 3-gallon containers or smaller. Shipping availability depends on the plant variety, size, quantity, destination, and packaging requirements. Shipping charges are calculated separately.

Please contact us before ordering if shipping is needed to confirm that the plant can be shipped and to receive the current shipping cost.

Advanced Nursery Growers LLC
1911 McLeod Road
DeFuniak Springs, FL 32435
Phone: 850-391-2228
Email: info@advancednurserygrowers.com
Website: www.AdvancedNurseryGrowers.com

Wholesale pricing is available for qualified nurseries. Please contact Advanced Nursery Growers for current availability and wholesale pricing.

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