Is a flowering crabapple common in central Indiana?
Ubiquitous in central Indiana neighborhoods built from the 1970s through the 2000s, and a large share of those are unnamed, scab-susceptible seedling stock now hitting the end of their good years. Newer disease-resistant cultivars are going back in as Callery pear falls out of favor, so the same yard often has a failing old crab and a young replacement.
Why that matters for tree work
Crabapple is the most-planted small tree in central Indiana subdivisions and it generates more "is my tree dying?" calls than anything else its size — because scab-susceptible cultivars go yellow and defoliate in July and August every single year while remaining perfectly alive. Most of these calls end in a spray program or a replacement conversation, not a removal.
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