Native beauties

New Garden Debut Redbuds come in all shapes and colors.

Ruby Falls Redbud is perfectly suited as a specimen plant due to its eye-catching weeping form, elegance, small stature and maroon foliage.Garden centers are snapping up new Eastern Redbud varieties from Garden Debut. These small ornamental trees contribute to great landscape design and easy-care maintenance. As an added bonus, these fresh cultivars enrich gardens with year-round, attention-grabbing colors and silhouettes. Take a look at The Rising Sun, Burgundy Hearts and RubyFalls—three outstanding Redbud additions that provide unique flower- and leaf-color choices.

Native Redbuds adapt easily to soils and climates, require less care and watering when established, and solve landscape problems that non-natives can’t. They attract birds, butterflies and bees, offer food and shelter for many species all year long, stay greener longer and make it easy to be successful in the home landscape.

Harbingers of spring, Redbuds provide a picture-perfect understory, are ideal specimens for accent plantings, naturalized in shrub borders, perfect for smaller, in-town neighborhoods and effective as residential street trees (underneath power lines).

The Rising Sun Redbud PPAF. Electrifying the nursery industry, The Rising Sun Redbud is destined to light up the landscape with appealing tangerine, peach or rosy-apricot new growth throughout the year. Heart-shaped leaves remain a brilliant, golden-yellow color all summer with no burning, even in full sun and the leaves hold their color through autumn.

Burgundy Hearts Redbud. Attention-grabbing, deep red-purple heart-shaped foliage of Burgundy Hearts Redbud is causing a furor surrounding this exceptionally vigorous, upright Redbud. Extra large leaves resemble wine-red “hanging hearts” and retain their attractive, deep coloration from the emergence of shimmering new growth in the spring through the end of the season, proving exceptionally resistant to summer leaf scorch.

Ruby Falls Redbud PPAF. Ruby Falls Redbud combines deep ruby-wine leaf color with a weeping habit. A new and distinct cultivar, this attention-getting combination sets Ruby Falls apart from existing cultivars of redbud. Deep maroon-purple foliage eventually changes to deep summer green, then yellow in fall. The pendulous, zig-zag branching structure forms a cascading crown at 4-6 feet in height, with a spread 6-8 feet.

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