Name: First Editions Ruby Tears crabapple
Description: Pink flowers cover the pendulous branches each spring. It bears attractive dark-red fruit and features burgundy-green foliage, much like ‘Prairiefire.’ Ruby Tears, from Bailey Nurseries, was found as a seedling at Beverly Nursery in Indiana.
Habit: Naturally weeping form that grows up to 10-feet tall and 15-feet wide.
Hardiness: USDA Hardiness
Zones 4-7.
For more: Bailey Nurseries, www.baileynurseries.com.

Explore the November 2011 Issue
Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
Latest from Nursery Management
- Dümmen Orange North America celebrating 25th anniversary in 2025
- Redesigning women
- Illinois Landscape Contractors Association changes name to Landscape Illinois
- 2025 Proven Winners Horticulture Scholarship applications now open
- ICL’s Gemini Granular herbicide now registered for use in California
- Eurazeo Planetary Boundaries Fund acquires Bioline AgroSciences
- The Leading Women of Horticulture
- Leading Women of Horticulture: Dana Massey, Plantworks Nursery