Redbuds and Whitebuds

Redbuds and Whitebuds

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TOPIC: Redbuds
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/fefa161dad50c5ec?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, May 8 2008 7:29 pm
From: "Steve Galehouse"

As a nurseryman trying to promote the use of native trees in landscaping and
gardening, I'd like to recommend "Appalachia Red" Redbud, found originally
in Maryland. Much more intense flower color, as shown in the photo:
http://usera.imagecave.com/srgalehouse/AppalachiaRedhome.jpg

Steve

== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 9 2008 10:31 am
From: ForestRuss@aol.com

Shane:

enjoy,

russ

== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 9 2008 10:57 am
From:

We have a couple of outlier seed sources in the western Great Lakes that are more suited to the north. One is the Columbus Strain from near Columbus, Wisconsin that is cold hardy and of a form that withstands heavy wet snow falls with less damage. The other is the Northland Strain from Minnesota that can withstand extreme cold. Here's a good site for redbud fans:
http://www.plantnames.org/cerc3880.html

Paul Jost

== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 9 2008 11:06 am
From: Beth Koebel

ENTS,

I have a "White Bud", an albino red bud two blocks
from my apartment. I am sure that it was planted
there. A friend, Guy Sternburg I think, told me that
it was a clone of an albino red bud found somewhere in
the woods of Missouri.

Beth

== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 9 2008 3:28 pm
From: Lee Frelich

ENTS:

Our Columbus and Northland redbuds in southern MN are just about to begin
blooming. Thirty days of below zero weather this past winter accompanied by
relentless winds killed about the top inch of twigs on the ones I have
examined, leaving thousands of flower buds intact and ready to go on every
tree.

There is still some snow left at my study site on the Gunflint Trail
(Boundary Waters, northern MN), and ice is off about half the lakes there.
It was -40 there fore several days and probably about 65 days below zero
during the winter. There are no redbuds in that area. There is a limit to
redbud cold tolerance.

Lee

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, May 9 2008 10:27 pm
From: "Paul Jost"

It's not really an albino. I think that it's a white-flowered subspecies of
redbud, Cercis canadensis alba that was first discovered in Carthage,
Missouri around 1900.

PJ

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, May 10 2008 6:51 am
From: "Edward Frank"

ENTS,

Here in west central PA we are outside the native range of eastern redbud. It is only planted occasionally as an ornamental in the area I had not realized how colorful of a display they make until I went to the ENTS gathering in Black Mountain NC a few weeks ago. The redbuds were in full display in the woods and along the interstates. I may be in the market for a specimen for in my yard.

Ed

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