Cercis canadensis Medicinal Woodlanders grows a subtropical species

Woodlanders grows a subtropical species that has surprised us with cold tolerance: proven hardy in Aiken

and baptisia for a sunny native planting

from the Greek chion

then thrives

deliberate growth

Cercis canadensis Medicinal Woodlanders grows a subtropical speciesFew native trees announce spring like Cercis canadensis, the eastern redbud, whose bare branches flush rosy pink and magenta weeks before the dogwoods open. The small pea like flowers cluster not just along the twigs but straight from the older branches and even the trunk, a charming trick called cauliflory, and give way to broad, heart shaped leaves. A small, graceful understory tree of eastern and central North America, redbud belongs in the legume