Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ – heart shaped leaves glow like embers in the autumn sunshine.
Wordless Wednesday : Touched with Fire
12 Wednesday Oct 2016
Posted in Gardening
Barn House Garden
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Wonderful in spring and summer and glorious in autumn. I wouldn’ t be without it.
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Yes, this is definitely one of those must have trees. I hear it can be pruned hard in spring to keep it as a shrub.
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That’s beautiful!
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Cercis are very lovely trees, this red leaved one doesn’t flower very well for me compared to its green leaved cousin C.siliquastrum but the red leaves are stupendous.
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Gorgeous. Interesting to read it can cope with hard pruning. Hmmm. Another possible for the garden!
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It’s well worth finding a space for one of these. Best to plant them young, they have a reputation for not transplanting well as more mature specimens. Mine was planted as a whispy looking 10 litre multi-stem 5 years ago, now at 8’x6′.
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Absolutely stunning!
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Oh, hooray! Thanks so much for patiently resending and profuse apologies for your comments getting inexplicably stuck in moderation. In the interim, I enjoyed our off-screen conversation about how fabulous this small tree is, no wonder it was recommended so highly to you on the design course you attended.
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:) and how kind of you to summarise.
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Least I could do!
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Fantastic colours.
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They are aren’t they? Ruby red, glossy in spring and then this as a finale. Very hard to beat.
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My favourite tree/ shrub but alas mine which has been in a pot its whole life is not happy. I think the heat this summer dried it out. I am going to put it in my new mixed border and hope it will be happier. Yours is looking wonderful
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Sounds good, I often wish I’d been brave and put mine in a border and day dream about how fab it would look with a skirt of hakonechloa around it. I dimly recall advice that cercis roots scorch if they’re over fertilised, maybe that’s in its favour if it’s been in a pot? Good luck, I look forward to seeing how the border turns out.
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You’ve captured two of the things that make autumn my favourite time of the year – the character of the light and of course those colours.
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How kind of you to say so, this particular cercis is an autumn fail safe.
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I’m not particularly good with trees, so I hadn’t realised that this is a type of redbud. It must be spectacular in spring too!
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I’m not great with woody stuff either, grasses and their perennial friends are my forte. Yet, this tree has not disappointed me. Exquisite new leaves in bud in spring followed by divine glossy purple foliage.
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It is quite colorful! Beautiful photos, Kate, and the lighting is perfect.
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Thanks, Lavinia! For a few weeks it’s like having a burning bush in the garden.
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