{"id":162,"date":"2012-03-30T11:25:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/?p=162"},"modified":"2012-03-30T11:25:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:25:56","slug":"beautiful-redbuds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/2012\/03\/30\/beautiful-redbuds\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful redbuds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Redbud (<em>Cercis canadensis<\/em>) is in spectacular bloom this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_163\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/files\/2012\/03\/redbud-in-yard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-163\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/files\/2012\/03\/redbud-in-yard-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redbud in a yard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although it seems the common name should be pink or purple bud, I guess the flowers in bud are redder than when open in bloom.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always wondered how pioneers learned colors and kept them consistent before many folks had books in color or other ways to standardize.\u00a0 Anyway, redbud is unusual in our area in that it is in the legume, the bean or pea, family and yet is it a small tree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_166\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/files\/2012\/03\/redbud-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-166\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/files\/2012\/03\/redbud--150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bean-shaped redbud flowers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A close look at the flowers shows the familiar bean flower shape and the seeds are borne in legume pods that split open along two sides.\u00a0Black locust is another woody member of this family in our area.\u00a0 Redbuds have cute hard-shaped leaves that come out after the flowers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_165\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/files\/2012\/03\/redbud-leaves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-165\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/files\/2012\/03\/redbud-leaves-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redbud leaves are heart-shaped<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is a very nice display of small redbuds in landscaping around Panera Bread at Glendale Mall here in Indy.\u00a0 In my yard near Butler, redbud comes in on its own and grows quickly to reach flowering size within a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redbud (Cercis canadensis) is in spectacular bloom this year.\u00a0 Although it seems the common name should be pink or purple bud, I guess the flowers in bud are redder than when open in bloom.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always wondered how pioneers learned &hellip; 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