Carolina Sweetheart® Redbud

The Carolina Sweetheart® Redbud is a striking foliage plant that also delivers in blooms, starting your spring garden off with a hot-pink explosion. The dense blooming on bare stems is exceptional, and the leaves start purple-red, turning pink and then variegated green and white. This fast growing tree will approach 15 feet tall within 10 years, maturing to 30 feet tall and wide. Grow it as a lawn specimen, part of the foundation planting around your home, out in beds, or edging woodlands. It will soon be your special garden sweetheart.

• Spectacular foliage effect of purple-red, pink, white and green
• Dramatic blooming in early spring of vibrant hot-pink blooms
• Striking multi-stem small tree for a knockout garden specimen
• Perfect lawn specimen
• Grows well at the edges of woodlands

Full sun will give the best foliage colors from the Carolina Sweetheart® Redbud, but it also grows in partial shade. It prefers richer, moist but well-drained soil, but has good drought resistance once well-established. It rarely has any pest or disease problems, but it can be grazed by deer. Water regularly until well-established, and prune when young to develop a multi-stem tree form.