Specialty Gardening: Signs of spring- What do you have blooming?, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
Two years ago the city offered homeowners a good deal on street trees: they would provide the tree and the hole, and stake it properly, if the homeowners would promise to care for it. Since cutting open the sidewalk is a minimum $150 around here, this was a very good offer so I took them up on it. At one time there were apparently lots of trees on the street, but the developer in the '40's bulldozed them all down(!).

I would have preferred an evergreen, but they gave us a redbud instead. Still, it has very pretty spring flowers. It's a little hard to get a shot of it, unless I position the tree silhouetted against the neighbor's big pine, LOL.