Temple of Bloom® Seven-Son Flower

Temple of Bloom® Seven-Son Flower Treebute Kit: A Living Memorial That Blooms When Others Don't 

With its elegant, multi-stemmed form, fragrant clusters of white blooms, and striking reddish-pink calyxes that extend its display into autumn, the Temple of Bloom Seven-Son (Heptacodium miconioides) is an extraordinary tree known for blooming later in the season - often when most trees are winding down.

Each Treebute Kit includes everything needed to plant a memorial tree at home - a hands-on experience many people find grounding during grief. As your Temple of Bloom grows, it offers four distinct seasons of beauty: sculptural spring foliage, fragrant late-summer blooms, ruby-red fall bracts that look like a second flowering, and dramatic peeling bark through winter. This complete memorial tree kit is designed to be simple and meaningful at home.

Why You'll Love the Temple of Bloom® Seven-Son Flower

• A Name That Speaks of Family: name origin translates to "Flower of Seven Children" - a tree that blooms in clusters of seven, each blossom surrounded by the others like family gathered close. 
• Fragrant, Late-Season Blooms: In late summer, when most flowering trees have long finished their show, the Temple of Bloom explodes with fragrant white blossoms. Jasmine-scented and nectar-rich, these flowers draw hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees - a flurry of life and movement at a time when gardens often go quiet. Hummingbirds have been known to nest in its branches.
• A Second Bloom in Ruby Red: After the white flowers fade, something magical happens: the sepals transform into vivid cherry-red bracts that persist for weeks, creating the illusion of an entirely new bloom in a completely different color. It's as if the tree gives you two seasons of flowering in one — white in late summer, ruby in fall.
• A Tree That Thrives on Its Own: This tree survived near-extinction not because it's fragile, but because it's remarkably tough. It adapts to almost any soil, tolerates drought once established, shrugs off pests and diseases, and requires essentially no pruning. The Temple of Bloom doesn't need you to worry over it - it just needs a place to grow. 

Your Complete Kit Includes

✓    Young Temple of Bloom® Seven Son Flower tree (healthy, ready to plant)
✓    Treebute® organic soil blend or premium potting mix
✓    Step-by-step planting & watering care guide

Everything arrives together, ready to plant. 

Nurturing Your Memorial Tree

• Light: Full sun (6+ hours) produces the best blooms. Tolerates partial shade (4-6 hours), especially in warmer climates.
• Water: Regular moisture until established. Once rooted, the Temple of Bloom is quite drought-tolerant and forgiving.
• Pruning: Minimal pruning needed. If you want to shape it, prune in late winter before flower buds form. Many people enjoy its natural multi-stemmed form.
• Soil & Drainage: Not fussy - adapts to most soil types as long as drainage is decent. Your Treebute soil blend provides an excellent foundation.

Each moment noticing your tree - the first fragrant blooms, the bracts turning red - becomes a quiet act of remembrance.

Optional: Plant with Cremation Ashes - The Treebute Difference

For those wishing to incorporate cremation ashes, your kit includes the option to add our Treebute® organic soil blend. This specially formulated mixture neutralizes the high pH and sodium leven in cremation ashes, creating a safe, nurturing foundation for your tree - if and when you are ready.

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 the right way to honor someone you love can feel overwhelming. The Temple of Bloom Seven Son Flower offers something both rare and reassuring - a tree whose very nature is resilience; a tree whose name speaks of family gathered close; a tree that offers beauty in every season and asks for almost nothing in return.

With fragrant blooms, colorful autumn displays, and distinctive winter bark, this tree becomes a year-round reminder of love, resilience, and memory that endures. 

The act of planting creates meaning. The fragrant blooms create memory. The tree endures - because that's what survivors do.