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My home garden is in Monroe, Ohio. Officially in USDA hardiness zone 6a, we still, however briefly, have hit zone 5a lows in winters not to distantly past. The soil in my immediate vicinity is Eden silty clay. In many local developments, the good stuff has been scraped away and sold off as topsoil to some other poor schmuck who also had THEIR upper soil horizons scraped away. Whatever we had upon our arrival has been amended with horse manure, coir, and compost. There is no bed in my yard that couldn’t have been amended some more.

24 April 2013

A Cercis sampler.

Cercis canadensis (eastern redbud)
Profuse cauliflory on redbud.
Closeup of one cluster of flowers.
In some years the fruit set (flat pea-like pods) can be very heavy. I find them attractive. The subsequent seedlings can, in a garden setting, be annoyingly numerous.
Seed pods on Cercis 'Oklahoma'
This one looks pretty much like your average C. canadensis. But when the leaves emerge:
C. 'Forest Pansy' has purple foliage at emergence and for a little while after that. Mileage varies... Some newer cultivars are better at retaining their color through summer.
C. 'Silver Cloud', an early variegated selection
Also 'Silver Cloud'; again, mileage varies.
Brr! But here's a good look at the form of C. 'Covey' (commonly marketed as Lavender Twist). Aside from the weeping habit, the leaves and flowers are much like plain old redbud. One can now get this form with either variegated or purple foliage ('Whitewater' and 'Ruby Falls', respectively).
A redder redbud: C. canadensis 'Appalachian Red', fenced against deer rub.
C. canadensis 'Alba', the white redbud (whitebud???).
C. chinensis 'Don Egolf' is compact and floriferous.

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7 comments:

  1. IrvinApril 24, 2013 at 9:52 PM

    Have I got an IMA blog for you this week (wrote it TODAY).

    Great Sampler. So many choices now.

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  2. AnonymousApril 25, 2013 at 3:33 AM

    Is Cercis a nitorgen fixer? Does it have nodules on its' roots?

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  3. UnknownApril 25, 2013 at 7:38 AM

    Irvin,

    looking forward to it!

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  4. UnknownApril 25, 2013 at 7:38 AM

    Anon,

    While Cercis IS a member of the pea-family, many of which DO grow nodules and fix nitrogen, the redbud is one of the exceptions and does NOT.

    Most specimens are very vigorous growers in spite of this.

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  5. Jo Ellen Meyers SharpApril 25, 2013 at 11:13 PM

    Very nice. For years, the only place I saw the profuse cauliflory (is cauliflory a real word?) was at the IMA, but last year I had a client who has a red bud that does the same thing.

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