The crab apples are blooming… now that we have some snow… it's going to hold on to those blooms and be really heavy on the tree. And so that's where limb breakage can occur," said Katherine, a ...

Many other fruit trees are blooming now, including pears, peaches, cherries and plums. A freeze is always a danger to fruit blossoms. Don't knock snow off the branches.

The tree for that area could be a spring flowering tree like a Spring Snow Crabapple or Princess Kay Plum, or a tree with brilliant fall colour such as a Sienna Glen Maple.

The tree species still available include Forest Pansy Redbud, Spring Snow Crabapple, Chanticleer Pear and Crimson Spire Oak.