If rainfall is lacking, follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment.

Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. Pruning time is in winter.

This tree is beautiful and offers four seasons of change. It's smaller stature allows it to be planted where others may not fit.

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This cultivar has become popular in the last two decades because it has red-purple leaves that are very bright in the spring and early summer. During the heat of the rest of summer it loses most of that colour and the foliage turns green with a tint of reddish. This loss of red foliar colour during the heat of summer is something that happens with just about all such mutations with extra anthocyanin pigments. Those pigments cause red to purple fall colour with the sunny, warm days and cool nights of autumn. The tree shows a more purplish-red leaf colour once again in late summer and early fall. The flowers seem to me to be a little darker than the average Redbud.

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Honey bees get nectar and pollen from this plant.

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