Not Only Alive But Flowering

[valley ranch]

Just like John Denver sang it!

 

[valley ranch]

Just like he sang it!

Mountain mama,

 

[Nyboy]

Would love to visit WV in the spring !! Lets all go visit @journey11 next spring.

 

[Nyboy]

No @thistlebloom the purple weeping redbud was about 5 feet tall, winter killed top foot and half,no way near graft line. When I go up to house tonight will take photo.

 

[lesa]

Love it when mother nature has a pleasant surprise for us! I absolutely love the redbuds. I have tried and tried to get them to live. They grow everywhere around here- except in my yard!

 

[Nyboy]

Lesa thats what was happening to me. I finally gave up on Native, and planted Japanese variety Kousa, that seems to do the trick.

 

[Smart Red]

We tried growing red bud. DH really liked them and wanted one in the yard. While it grew, it never did great, never flowered properly. Then one year it flowered in the spring! Beautiful! Then it flowered in the fall! Pretty, sort of. The following spring? Nada, zilch, nothing. The redbud was dead.

The dogwoods I tried didn't live long either. It seemed they got a fungal disease, Discula destructiva, and slowly died. My one success -- with a Red Kousa Dogwood -- is now doing poorly. I just noticed late last week that there is a large gash in one side of the trunk where the bark has been scrapped off which I suspect was done when the geo-guys' machines were coming and going in the yard. I doubt this tree will make it. My best bet is to try taking a cutting now and hope I can get a new tree to start.

 

[Nyboy]

Red I didn't know Kousa came in red

 

[thistlebloom]

No @thistlebloom the purple weeping redbud was about 5 feet tall, winter killed top foot and half,no way near graft line. When I go up to house tonight will take photo.

Some weepers are double grafted, a trunk onto rootstock, and then on top of the upright trunk the weeping portion is grafted. Look at the top where the branches emerge, see if it looks like a knot. If the roots are still alive you could still have a green upright redbud, which is better than no redbud!

 

[Smart Red]

After writing that I don't have any dogwoods, I noticed what looks very much like a dogwood shrub setting buds in the orchard. Any chance dogwood root-stock would be used under either plum or peach trees? The tree in question died back to below the graft.