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Plant: Summer's Tower - Redbud
Cercis canadensis 'Summer's Tower'
Size: 15 gal
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More about this plant
A narrow, upright, vase shaped selection of eastern redbud reaching about 25 feet tall and 12 feet wide, so it fits where a spreading redbud will not. Pink to lavender pea flowers cover the branches before the heart shaped leaves open in spring. It grows in full sun to part shade, tolerates clay and black walnut, and works as a street tree or small specimen.
- Full Sun
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A narrow, upright, vase shaped selection of eastern redbud reaching about 25 feet tall and 12 feet wide, so it fits where a spreading redbud will not. Pink to lavender pea flowers cover the branches before the heart shaped leaves open in spring. It grows in full sun to part shade, tolerates clay and black walnut, and works as a street tree or small specimen.
- Flowers
- Pea like pink to lavender flowers open in clusters along the old wood before the leaves in spring and are edible.
- Foliage
- Simple, alternate, heart shaped green leaves 3 to 6 inches long, turning yellow in fall.
- Fruit
- Flat oblong pods, green maturing to brown.
- Bark & stems
- Dark brown to black bark with orange inner bark showing, smooth when young and scaly and plated with age.
- Pruning
- Remove dead branches as needed.
- Native range
- Eastern and central North America, from North Carolina to eastern Mexico
