From what she is saying, if you aren't a connoiser of redbud trees, just get
a texas variety. Trees actually look nicer with ordinary green leaves.
They seem to do well enough around here - there's enough of them, even out
along the highway!


"animaux" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:35:29 GMT, (Terry Horton)
wrote:


If you do please report back. It's of course an eastern redbud (not
var. texensis), so make sure to it gets plenty of water and lots of
afternoon shade. I've seen maybe a half dozen around here, and all
seemed to have a problem with leaf spot that, despite the interesting
coloration, left them less attractive by summer's end than the native
varieties.

Our most interesting redbud is a 'Traveller', a weeping Texas redbud
we picked up at Madrone Nursery in San Marcos. It's a mound of
writhing branches 3' tall and 8' across! My niece trained her's to
cascade down a rock wall.

Redbuds are more suitable as understory trees, especially if they are
eastern
redbuds. At least that's what I find. The development where we live put
redbuds out
in the sidewalk strip and every summer there is no water and they get that
awful leaf
spot. I feed and water the ones directly in back of our house, but they
still get
it. Probably not var.texensis, either.

The 'Traveler' sounds wonderful. I'll have to look into that one.

Victoria