We were walking by our specimen of Chinese redbud (Cercis chinensis ‘Avondale’) recently, and couldn’t get over the number of feeding bees, including both honeybees, as well as our native bees. Chinese redbuds have far more flowers than our native redbuds, so can feed more pollinators, although we certainly love both. It’s good that the native bees haven’t read all the propaganda about how they should only feed on native plants. The short video below gives you an idea of the sound of several hundred bees feeding at once.
Well,- as regards to “Cercis-walking”…then one of my own, private hopes is some day to be able to walk THROUGH a planting of Cercis griffithii… …as ‘Flora of the USSR’ will have us believe that some of the wild provenances of this C. Asian Cercis…WILL ONLY GROWS TO ABOUT HALF A METER !
Now that would be amazing!
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