Hi Paul,I feel for you, having to stare out at all that snow reminiscing days tying up laterals.
When i was a kid the street that we lived in was lined with about 150 red crabapples trees,my mother would make crabapple jam from these, it was important to pick from the best tree which was 10 houses down from us, a small tree but always had the largest fruit.Our street had a least 30 kids so it was amazing how much crabapples ended up on the roofs of houses, squashed on the winscreens of passing cars,etc.
In my thread below i mentioned about a wilding apple trees in our area,theres one crabapple that would have to be 30-40 years old growing beside a stream just off the road.How it got there?who knows, cant imagine someone out on a sunday drive eating crabapples chucking the cores out the window, i think its some sort hybrid cross that has reverted back.
So yes all apples cross pollinate freely,some of todays major varieties where accidental crosses ,Braeburn for one.
Richard
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