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PlantHaven
(Chinese Plumbago, My Love Plumbago)
Chinese plumbago is a small twiggy shrub with an open habit and diamond-shaped apple green leaves. Valued for late season interest, it bears clusters of true blue flowers in late summer. Autumn brings a beautiful show of color with red to bronze foliage.
Tolerant of drought and poor soils, Chinese plumbago is a good candidate for banks and slopes. Small enough for the patio or container, this Chinese native looks best when grown in sun and lightly shaped before growth begins in the spring. It...
Gerald L. Klingaman
(Katsura Tree)
Regarded as one of the world's most beautiful small shade trees, the katsura tree has uniform heart-shaped leaves, golden orange fall foliage and persistent coppery-tan seedpods that decorate its bare winter branches. A deciduous tree from China and Japan, it generally has a spreading, vase-shaped to oval-canopy and gray-brown bark that exfoliates in vertical bands, adding winter and spring interest.
The heart-shaped leaves first emerge with a bronzy color before turning medium green. The leaf...
Mark A. Miller
(Heronswood Globe Katsura Tree, Katsura Tree)
Regarded as one of the world's most beautiful small ornamental shade trees, the katsura tree has uniform heart-shaped leaves and pinkish apricot to gold fall foliage that releases a faint fragrance akin to burned sugar or caramel as they drop. A deciduous tree from China and Japan, 'Heronswood Globe' develops with a dense and perfectly round silhouette with gray-brown bark that exfoliates in vertical bands, adding winter and early spring garden interest. This cultivar was selected by Dan Hinkley...
(Katsura Tree, Red Fox Katsura Tree)
Regarded as one of the world's most beautiful small ornamental shade trees, the katsura tree has uniform heart-shaped leaves. The German selection 'Red Fox' produces new spring leaves of a burgundy-purple or bronze-red hue that mature to blue-green by early summer. In autumn the leaves turn pinkish apricot to gold and release a faint fragrance akin to burned sugar or caramel as they drop. The gray-brown bark exfoliates in vertical bands, adding winter and early spring garden interest on the upright...
James H. Schutte
(Weeping Katsura Tree)
An elegant and variable form of one of East Asia's most beautiful trees, weeping katsura bears dainty shimmering heart-shaped leaves on cascading, mounded branches.
The leaves of this deciduous tree emerge with a bronzy color before turning medium green. The leaf blades have tiny scalloped edges and are usually held in opposite pairs on the branches. In early spring, before the leaves emerge, tiny flowers appear, with red female flowers and green male flowers borne on separate trees. Fertile...
(Amazing Grace Weeping Katsura Tree, Weeping Katsura Tree)
Introduced into the American nursery trade by Kentucky nurseryman Theodore Klein around 1960, 'Amazing Grace' is a weeping katsura tree that bears dainty, shimmering, heart-shaped leaves on cascading, mounded branches. The selection reportedly originated as a seedling in the nursery of Jess Eliot in Indiana and the cultivar name reportedly coined by Bob Hill of Courier Journal/Hidden Hill Nursery.
The leaves of this deciduous tree emerge with a bronzy color before turning medium green with a...
Gerald L. Klingaman
(Eastern Redbud)
This is certainly one of the most beautiful of the North American deciduous trees. Eastern redbud is a medium-sized tree that is native to eastern and central North America. Prized as both a specimen tree and small shade tree, it may be multi-stemmed or single-trunked and has a broad, rounded or spreading canopy.
Eastern redbud has very distinctive large, heart-shaped leaves that are often tinted with purple when they first emerge, turn medium green shortly after and then yellow in fall. In...
PlantHaven
(Ace of Hearts Redbud, Eastern Redbud)
The small heart-like leaves of 'Ace of Hearts' and its more lavender-tinted blossoms really adds cheerful interest to the landscape. This deciduous, small-sized tree originates from eastern and central North America and was selected in 1997 from seedlings growing in Morganton, North Carolina. Prized as both a dwarf specimen or shade tree, it may be multi-stemmed or single-trunked and has a broad, rounded or spreading canopy.
Eastern redbud has very distinctive heart-shaped leaves that turn shades...
James Burghardt
(Appalachian Red Eastern Redbud, Eastern Redbud)
The only redbud to have flowers with true red and magenta tones, 'Appalachian Red' also carries lvoely heart-like leaves upon an upright yet rounded canopy. This deciduous, small-sized tree originates from eastern and central North America. Prized as both a small specimen or shade tree, this cultivar is usually single-trunked but can readily be trained or purchased in a multi-stemmed form.
Eastern redbud has very distinctive heart-shaped leaves that turn shades of yellow in fall. Those of 'Appalachian...
James H. Schutte
(Eastern Redbud, Lavender Twistâ„¢ Eastern Redbud)
The weeping Lavender Twistâ„¢ is an especially beautiful and unusual small redbud. This markedly winter-hardy tree has contorted branches that droop to the ground. In spring they become covered with lavender-pink redbud flowers. It was developed by Cornelia Covey of Brotzman's Nursery, Inc. in Madison, Ohio.
Eastern redbud is certainly one of the most beautiful of the North American deciduous trees. In the wild, it is distributed in lowlands and uplands across eastern and central North America....