One of the smaller trees in our front yard is a Western Redbud. It's on the Southwest corner of our house and has wonderful structure and enough summer foliage to provide dappled sunshine at its base.
For a few weeks in Spring though it's truly a showstopper. From about Mid April to the first part of May it is completely covered in delicate, tiny pink blossoms. The picture below is from late April.
As with all Spring blooming plants the flowers gave way to leaves and the tree shed the tiny pink blossoms. The blossoms were so numerous that they coated the ground below. There were so many fallen spent flowers that they caught on other small plants and shrubs and made them look like they had pink flowers too.
The flowers all fell off in the space of a week or two and coated the ground below in what looks like a fine dusting of pink snow.
For a few weeks in Spring though it's truly a showstopper. From about Mid April to the first part of May it is completely covered in delicate, tiny pink blossoms. The picture below is from late April.
2 comments:
Pink snow is the best. I wish I could keep a redbud alive, but they just aren't happy here for me. Maybe I should try one in a more sheltered location. Yours has a lovely structure, must be pretty even out of flower.
Karen - It might be too cold for Redbuds where you are. I think here in Zone 6 is about as cold as they want to get. But we're happy to have them, between them and the dogwoods we have some lovely flowering Spring trees.
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