Purple Spire Columnar Crabapple features airy clusters of fragrant pink flowers along the branches in mid spring before the leaves. The fruits are showy purple pomes carried in abundance from early to mid fall. It has dark green-variegated deep purple foliage.

Purple Spire Columnar Crabapple is a deciduous tree with a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Purple Spire Columnar Crabapple will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 6 feet. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH.