Went out for paint came back with a tree

[Nyboy]

I need to pickup some paint today, was just going to run in quick. Saw young eastern redbud trees covered in buds, Lucky I remembered the paint.

 

[catjac1975]

Ahhh my kind of boy!!!

 

[Carol Dee]

A tree is forever. Paint is only temporary!

 

[Jared77]

NICE!

 

[Smart Red]

My DH always complains that I don't HAVE A PLAN to use when deciding what and when to make new purchases. " Ya gotta have a plan!"

I am always open to seeing something I love and have to have in the yard and garden. DH? Never! Nope, not him. That's why I've been tending 10 small golden tipped arborvitae pots for the past two years. . . waiting for him to decide where he'd planned to put them when he brought them home.

Those red buds are a lovely small tree.

Love and good to be back, Smart Red

 

[897tgigvib]

Suddenly got a visual...

A line, three trees thick, of Redbud. In front of that, three tiered, Flowering Quince...

Add a 50 foot wild waterfall and a natural bubbling pool behind that...

You may return to reality now

 

[journey11]

Those redbuds really make a pretty specimen tree. You can prune on them a little bit to get some graceful, open limbs. They grow wild all over the place here and are so pretty in spring, mixed with the wild white dogwoods and the hazy colors of all the other trees just budding up.

 

[lesa]

My absolute favorite tree! Dh never understands why we need to park right next to the garden center- no matter what we need at Home Depot! You just never know what you will find...

 

[thistlebloom]

This is probably the most dangerous season of the year for garden impulse buying!

I love redbuds too, they have the most appealing foliage, and especially the new spring growth.

My sister brought one to me when she visited one year. After a bad winter when the 4+ foot tree was completely snowed under for months, it died, but resprouted from the roots. I tried to keep it growing but another hard winter and it died back to the roots again. So I threw in the towel and took it out. I'd sure like to have one though.

 

[897tgigvib]

Thistle, I read somewhere they are breeding up hardier varieties of them, plus you know the tricks, bark wrap and stuff, warm toned heat sink wall to the north of it...

Yea, mother's day weekend is the most impulse buying day of the year at nurseries, and or memorial day...