Welcome to this week’s {floral friday}!
Thanks to my wonderful my mom, I have another fun plant to share with you today — the crabapple! She bought a branch just before Christmas and not only was it baring tiny little apples, it also started to bloom after a few days in her cozy house. Beautiful!
A few facts about the crabapple:
- Crabapples are versatile, small, ornamental trees used in the urban landscape.
- Trees only produce fruit after they have had flowers. The ornamental fruit of a crabapple puts on a show during the fall and winter. Fruits vary from less than ¼” to 2” in diameter. {source}
- Both apple trees and crabapples have clustered, five-petaled blossoms with 15 to 20 yellow stamens in the center. {source}
I’m partying here! ❤
Comments
How very pretty. I would never have thought to put a branch in a vase, nor expected a crab apple to flower inside. Such beautiful photos.
Thank you so much for your sweet comment! :)
xo! Vanessa
I just love that, Vanessa. Isn’t that sweet for the New Year? xo Diana
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Thank you so much for your sweet comment-love, Diana! :)
Have a fabulous weekend!
XO! Vanessa
I love your floral friday’s. Very pretty, I am ready for spring here in Utah. Thank you for sharing some with me. Have a lovely weekend.
Wanda Ann @ Memories by the Mile
Thank you so much for your sweet words, Wanda Ann! :)
The weather over here actually has been more like fall for the last few weeks. Not the nice crisp air fall, though. Rainy and gray.. :(
So, I’m ready for spring as well, hehe.
Have a wonderful week!
XO! Vanessa
This is my favorite floral friday yet!!! I now am obsessed with getting a crabapple tree.
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Thank you so much, Carolyn! :)
I was so surprised when the crabapple started blooming! Beautiful.
Hugs! Vanessa
Another beautiful flower.
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Thank you, Jennylynn! :)
Have a great week!
xo! Vanessa
How beautiful these white little flowers are. The last picture I love, the effect of close ups of white flowers is dreamy and fairy. Lovely pictures Vanessa!
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Thank you so much for your sweet words, Andrée! :)
Have a wonderful week!
XO! Vanessa
Beautiful photos!!!
Have a great Year!
Hugs from Portugal,
Ana Love Craft
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Thank you, Ana! :)
Hugs to you!
Vanessa
We have crabapples around here, but I’ve never looked at them from this perspective before. They are lovely!
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