Redbud trees produce a zillion seeds after the lovely pinkish/purple flowers and in my unruly less and less tended two and a half acres, I often find redbud seedlings and am happy to have them. While weeding that awful gripe weed in what I refer to as the back forty, I was delighted to find a rather large redbud that had gotten half-way knocked over by a fallen oak limb. Common seedling redbuds can grow to twenty feet pretty quickly and that makes it hard for me to reach the flowers which are at the ends of the branches. This lovely redbud , graceful in its new unintended horizontal growth habit, has lots of branches easy for me to reach and use in arrangements and it’s nice not to worry about getting the garden club award for yard of the month.
Redbuds for my arrangements
