Native Plants do well in the home landscape. The flowers pictured above are from a small tree, Eastern Redbud. This particular tree is growing in a flowerbed in a home landscape and is about 12 ft tall. It blooms in early in spring around Easter. Other plants in this flowerbed include Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa), Baptisia (Baptisia australis), Sage, Silver Plumegrass (Saccharum alopecuroides) and Rose of Sharon shrub. Bees are very attracted to these flowers, both the bumble bee and honey bees are seen frequenting them. The leaves of the Redbud are quite large and heart shaped which is why it is being used as wedding party favors as living tree gifts the guests can take home and plant. The seed pods are similar to small beans. These trees are easy to sprout from seed. Redbud is an understory tree but it also does well in full sun as a speciman in a lawn or as a part of a flowerbed. Be sure to leave enough room for it. Do not plant too close to foundations in flowerbeds. It is better suited about 15 feet, at least, from a house. It is deciduous, dropping its leaves in fall after turning a bright yellow. Eastern Redbud is available in nurseries and forestry catalogs or occasionally as small specimans at GNPS plant sales.