Dee that sounds like some awesome prices for Red Buds anything here is twice the price of the Salem area. I stopped at some garden centers when I was there in 2009-10 and I sure envy your selection. In 2009 I was after Japanese Maples and visited a lady somewhere in the Salem area that had a really nice growing operation it was called Whitman Farms she had any and everything you could want in trees. What made hers unique is the way she grew them if I remember right it was called root control bags. I don't remember the specific's but she grew them in these bags so she could transplant and ship them easy and the growth on those things was amazing in a bag. I bought 8 of the smaller Jap maples thinking I would be lucky if a couple lived but her trees have out performed just about everything else and so far I still have 6 of them alive. She would be worth looking into for a instant impact and her pricing was really good.
Paul That has too be nice to be able to work outside in the garden again and get some of them cleaned up. I am hoping the 1st week in March I can start to do something weather permitting, Today it got really cold outside again wind chills in the single digits and then we have a storm moving our way from the west coast that is predicted to drop 10 to 12 inches on Thursday.I was hoping for a little snow cover but did not want to be buried in it. Spring can't come quick enough.
Polly I got lucky on those 2 trees I have never seen anything else around here like them, so I gambled and bought them hoping they would do well in our area and so far so good they are some of the fastest growing trees I have. With good year around color.
Jan you might try some Crabapples or a Pear tree they are both beautiful in the spring and the pear has really good fall color. The redbuds are my favorite for there bloom but crabapples are a close 2nd. The Pears are normally the 1st to bloom in the spring and the last to drop there leaves in the fall.
Mary Ann I think they will be ok I would try pushing them back in the ground and putting a brick over the ones that are sticking up, I had the same thing happen with one of my beds last year when we got back from vacation in Feb there was no snow cover and I had quite a few with roots exposed completly I went and got compost and covered the ground and a thin layer over the bulbs and put bricks over the ones that were starting to heave and I did not lose anything and most still bloomed. Try and cover them and see what happens they might surprise you.
