The Rising Sun™ Redbud

Cercis canadensis ‘JN2’ PP21451

A peachy keen new introduction, The Rising Sun™ Redbud is destined to light up the landscape with appealing, peach colored heart- shaped leaves. This durable native small tree contributes brilliant, golden tangerine colored, heart-shaped foliage all summer with no burning, even in full sun.

The Rising Sun™ is a vigorous grower with a full, rounded shape and stylishly holds its color into autumn. A third season of interest is provided in early spring by sweet pea-type flowers, rosy-orchid in color. The flowers appear before the foliage in spring and are attractive to bees and butterflies. New foliage is a bright rosy-apricot. Even the bark is a smooth tan with a yellowish cast, distinctive from other Redbuds.

With a mature height of only 12 feet, The Rising Sun™ is perfect for smaller gardens and in-town neighborhoods as well as for specimen and accent plantings. “When I first saw this Redbud I went wild,” enthused grower Ray Jackson. “Fellow nurserymen have said it is the most outstanding golden Redbud they have ever seen, and I can attest it is vigorous in growth and very heat tolerant.”

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Features: Foliage holds its color for three seasons with no burning.

Flowers: Rosy-orchid sweet pea-like blooms up and down branches and trunks in early spring.

Foliage: Bright rosy apricot new leaves mature to riveting summer foliage that ranges in color from gold to peach and apricot; color is retained in autumn.

Growth Habit: Vigorous grower reaching an ideal mature height of 12 feet.

Landscape Use: Native ornamental tree with interest in three seasons. Diminutive size is perfect for in-town landscapes or as an accent grouped in larger or commercial landscapes.

Care: Feed plants in early spring and again in early fall with all-purpose fertilizer. Newly planted container plants require more frequent watering than established landscape plantings. Wind, temperature and soil type are factors to consider in determining watering.

Exposure: Full Sun

Soil: Wide tolerance of soil moisture. Grown in loam, sand or clay. pH level: 5-8

Hardiness: Cold Hardy to -10 to -20° F. (Zones 5 - 8)

Heredity: U.S., Ray Jackson, Belvidere, Tenn.

Growers

Bottom Brothers Nursery

213 Fairview Road, McMinnville, TN 37110

(931) 668-9258

www.bottomsbrothersnursery.com

Carlton Plants, LLC

14301 SE Wallace Road, PO Box 398, Dayton, OR 97114

www.carltonplants.com