Eastern Redbud

Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis) - Heart-shaped leaves and rosy spring blooms that celebrate love, renewal, and hope. 

Each Treebute Kit includes everything needed to plant a memorial tree at home - a hands-on experience that creates a living connection bringing comfort, healing, and peace. When words fall short, using your hands to plant and care for something living can bring quiet comfort and forward movement. This complete memorial tree kit is designed to be simple and meaningful at home.

Why You'll Love the Eastern Redbud:

• Meaningful Blossoms: When most trees are still bare, the Redbud bursts into clouds of rosy-pink blossoms along every branch - even growing directly from the trunk. For centuries, people have brought Redbud branches indoors to "drive winter out." This tree announces spring and the hope that comes with it.
• Heart-Shaped Leaves: The Eastern Redbud's leaves are unmistakably heart-shaped - nature's own valentine that appears fresh each spring and summer. It's a quiet, beautiful reminder that love endures, growing more visible with each passing season.
• Perfect for Small Spaces: Grows 15–25 feet tall with a rounded, manageable canopy.Seasonal Beauty: Spring brings that spectacular rosy-pink bloom. Summer reveals glossy green heart-shaped leaves. Autumn transforms the canopy to warm gold and yellow. Even in winter, the graceful branching structure and interesting bark add beauty to your landscape.
• Tough & Adaptable: Native to eastern North America, the Redbud is remarkably adaptable - thriving in full sun or partial shade, tolerating clay soil, and becoming drought-tolerant once established. It grows quickly when young and requires very little maintenance. This is a tree that wants to flourish for you.

Your Complete Kit Includes

✓     Young Eastern Redbud tree (healthy, ready to plant)

✓     Treebute® organic soil blend 

✓     Step-by-step planting & watering guide 

            Everything arrives together, ready to plant.

Easy to Grow, Easy to Love - Nurturing Your Memorial Tree

No green thumb? No problem! The Eastern Redbud is as resilient as it is beautiful. It thrives in a variety of soil types, requires minimal pruning, and is generally pest and disease resistant. With this low-fuss buddy, you get maximum beauty with minimum effort.

• Light: Full sun to partial shade - you'll see the heaviest blooms in sunnier spots, but this tree adapts well to dappled light. 
• Water: Water regularly during the first year to help roots establish. Once settled, your Redbud becomes quite drought-tolerant.
• Soil: Remarkably adaptable - handles clay, sandy, acidic, and alkaline soils. Just avoid waterlogged areas.
• Space: Allow 20-25 feet for your tree to reach its full, graceful form (20-30 feet tall and wide at maturity).

Each moment caring for your tree - watering, watching the spring buds swell, seeing those heart-shaped leaves unfurl - becomes a quiet act of remembrance.

Optional: Plant with Cremation Ashes

For those wishing to incorporate cremation ashes, your kit includes the option to add our Treebute® organic soil blend. This specially formulated mixture creates a safe, nurturing foundation for your tree - transforming ashes into living growth.

Your tree is meaningful with or without ashes - this is simply another way to honor someone you love.

Honor Your Loved One in a Way That Lives On

Finding a meaningful way to honor someone you love can feel overwhelming. The Eastern Redbud offers something both beautiful and symbolic - a native tree whose heart-shaped leaves speak of enduring love, and whose early spring blooms remind you that hope and renewal are always possible.

When those rosy-pink flowers appear on still-bare branches, you'll have a reason to pause, to remember, and to feel connected. And when the heart-shaped leaves emerge, you'll be reminded that love doesn't end - it grows.

The act of planting creates meaning. The heart-shaped leaves create connection. The tree creates a place to remember.