Red Bud Tree

Some blooms still on the tree....

The transplant.......

We have a very old red bud tree in the back yard that was there when my grandparents bought the house. It bloomed this year mid March until the end of March. All of the purple blooms were gone by the first of April. The Earliest bloomer in the yard! (besides the Camellia bushes, and the false pear tree). This week I transplanted some wisteria vines onto the tree, and thought that would be a pretty sight after the red bud blooms fell off.There used to be a huge wisteria vine, or maybe it was a tree I can't quite remember, growing outside of our kitchen window when my grandparents owned the home. Unfortunately for us, and the tree, it was placed directly over the septic tank! My papa Joe cut down the wisteria, but now, years later,sprouts are growing all over the area and have clogged the septic tank once again. Funny how something so beautiful can be such a nuisance in another way! I dug and dug at those roots. The tap root went down very deep, and the thread-like roots coming from the main were long and are the source of the septic problem I think. I removed two large sections of sprouts and transplanted those. My miniature dachshund was very excited with all of the digging and commotion going on, as she is a "rooter" by nature. I hope that the wisteria lives, and I feel sure that it will. It seems in our yard that if we wanted it to die, it never would but seeing that we want it to live, it probably won't make it. I plan to prune it well so that it won't totally take over the tree like I know it could.Hopefully I made a good decision to transplant, and will not look back on this moment and regret it! But, then again, how could you regret planting a flower! (I really shouldn't ask those types of questions :0).