Growing Redbud Trees from Seeds

After a long, cold and snowy winter, what is a more welcome sign of spring than a redbud tree with its branches covered in thousands of delicate lavender blooms. Redbud trees are one of the first trees to bloom in the spring and they are also quite easy to grow from seeds.

Eastern redbud trees are hardy to zones 4-9 and are found in the wild across much of the eastern United States and as far west as Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The Latin name for this native tree is Cercis canadensis and it typically grows to be about twenty feet tall, although redbud trees that are out in the open will grow taller than those in the forest. Redbuds are understory trees, meaning they are adapted to living under the canopy of larger trees in the forest. But they will grow in either full sun or partial shade and they make excellent ornamental trees that require very little care.

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