Redbuds

[Josiah]

When I lived in the Arkansas Ozarks the wild redbud trees were not the very first to bloom. Serviceberry was a white blooming tree had that distinction, but very shortly after that the more plentiful redbeds showed their lovely magenta flowers but still there was not a hint of greening elsewhere in the woods, just blooming redbuds and dormant branches everywhere else.

When I moved to southern Ohio (not a whole lot further north than the Ozarks), Spring looked entirely different. The first thing you saw were leaf buds showing some green and a few days later a little more green so there was a noticeable green haze before any trees bloomed and then all of a sudden a wide variety of blooming trees started to bloom, most notably where I live the dogwood trees, white and pink. And finally at about the same time the redbuds bloomed but by now there were signs of Spring everywhere.

Why the Arkansas redbuds bloomed so early and the Ohio redbuds bloomed so much later remains a mystery to me.

 

[Mrs. Robinson]

Our redbuds bloom in February when not much else has bloomed yet. Lots of redbuds here-one of our hosptals was Redbud (usually referred to as "Deadbud") before they changed the name to Adventist Health LOL. We have a Redbud Park as well. Very pretty,but when we planted a couple,they died

 

[Jackie22]

Lots of Redbuds here too, in fact they come up wild all in my yard and have to be thinned out, they are lovely and bloom here around Easter.

I have never been able to transplant the dogwoods successfully though.

 

[Ameriscot]

I don't think we have them here in the UK, but in TN it was one of my favourites as well as dogwoods. There was a long row of redbuds just outside my second floor office window and really made a pretty view.