Is my apple tree ... - Now with photo

Soot2006

So lovely heavy frost.

I have a 3yo apple tree that has never flowered. Got some leaves this spring/summer and I've mostly ignored it, figured if it survives, it survives and if not, then no big loss ...

... This morning, through the frost, it has flowered. Beautiful dark pink blossoms. The rest of the garden is white and confused ... What is going on with my strange apple tree?

sobie

Sounds more like an ornamental flowering cherry something like Prunus Autumnalis which has pink flowers from November.
What variety do you think the apple is / what was it purchased as?

Badrick

Had a James Greive do this in late November last year, I think right fluctuations in temperature can trigger them into spring growth.
BTW it did flower again this Spring and produced a few apples.

Soot2006

Uhm ... little red apples
Thanks for both responses. Be just my luck to have been sent the wrong tree! .... But hopefully it's just being a bit silly and will take after Badrick's tree

lostinrates

My very old apple tree had autum leaves and some bloosom on it along side the ripe fruit.

Dh saw a spring flowering cherry in bloom in London a coup,e of weeks ago and sent me a picture of it.

It's a weird year, many plants are confused.

And if it is a flowering cherry you have, well, you can get an apple in elsewhere.

sobie

Just re-read your post. It cannot be an ordinary apple as apple tree blosson is always white, at most it is tinged with pink.

Crabapples however can have dark pink blossom and small bitter fruits that make excellent jelly.

Ornamental Cherrys (Prunus) can also produce small fruits that are not really like ordinary cherries, they look like small pear shaped apples.

Are you able to upload a photo?

keystone

Dark Pink flowers is certainly a cherry. My client today has two in his front garden. Both budding so a couple of days behind OPs.

Cheers

Soot2006

Ah well. Bummer. Wish the tree had told me this earlier. It's got the best spot in the garden, in line with the neighbour's apple trees. Whatever it is, it can stay until next year I guess so I can see what it looks like if it deigns to flower/fruit in spring this year. I'll get a picture when it's lighter. The wood doesn't look like cherry to me, but then I've already admitted how little I know. All my cherry trees end up a gnarled mess .. this is a beautiful ramrod straight straight imposter. Perhaps the blossoms won't be quite as pink when they're fully out? They seem to have stagnated for now.

Living in hope,
Brighton

lostinrates

Dark pink could be a crab apple, and some apples just opening blosson DOES look very dark pink. BUT, the trunk is the one that's confusing me. In the past my cherrys have all grown very straight and beautiful, often with very smooth and beautiful bark, where as my apples I find are not straight and have less sensual bark.

Soot2006

I'm starting to feel like my trees must have fallen out the back of a lorry!

ljonski

Perhaps this story will have a happy ending - like that of the Ugly Duckling?