Projo Garden Blog

Most gardeners, nowadays, are working people with limited time to spend nurturing their gardens. I have more time to devote to my garden than many others because I am fully retired. I always dislike leaving the garden, especially from spring to late fall. It's a similar feeling to having to leave your children with babysitters.

Last week I had to make a trip to Washington, D.C. While everyone flocked to the tidal basin area to see the cherry blossoms; I was excited to discover the red bud trees along some main streets and right in the courtyard of the place where I stayed, at Logan Circle. I have never seen buds or blossoms right on the tree trunks before.

Cercis canadensis, or Eastern Redbud, is described as a shrub or small tree. The ones I saw were mostly quite big and tall (this particular one was as tall as a three-story building). The flowers vary in shades of pink to almost purple, blooming in clusters from March to May. They produce flat, brown, pea-like pods, maturing late summer to fall.

 Tags  Eastern Redbud

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Buz said:

That is an amazing array of buds and blossoms, and the trunks hold them very well...I never saw that either. Let me know if this comment reaches you

Link | April 16, 2009 11:47 AM
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