Said to be a J.C. Raulston introduction. Maybe you can find information about performance there on Raulston Arboretum web site.

It is a great color. I got one for the garden. Carroll Gardens has it. It was a grafted tree. About $60.

Thanks bboy and Jake!

I wonder how long till the price comes down a bit....

Here is one for $36.

The color looks similar to my Oklahoma Redbud in case you haven't seen those. Always hard to judge true color on the net, of course.

Here is a link that might be useful: $36 price

Thanks rcnaylor! Good prices and good selection of redbuds at "the Song Sparrow Nursery." I had never heard of one of those varieties.

The Appalachian Red" pictured was not as "red" as the plants I saw in bloom at a nursey at the Farmer's mkt in Ashville. But like you wrote, hard to judge color on the net.

Can these prices from Mingo nursery be for real "Appalachian Red" redbuds? 2' to 3' for $6 ?

3' to 4' for $7 ?

They only sell "to the trade", but suppose I can get a friend to order them for me. The prices just seem TOO good.

Here is a link that might be useful: mingo nursery prices

Those ARE wholesale prices, which will be far less than what you could locate at a retail source. They are also field grown liners and whips, so very young and slender "treelets" with no real branching structure yet. Generally, this type of product is purchased by growers and other nurseries who grow the plant on to a salable size and form. And while this wholesaler does not quote a minimum order (most wholesalers do), they do denote that trees are sold in bundles of 10.

Personally, unless you have lots of patience and friends to share 10 of the same baby tree with, I'd keep looking for a larger, more developed specimen at a retail outlet. Yes, you'll pay more but you will have a real tree, not a skinny little sapling.

Watch out for Carroll Gardens. It was only AFTER I have a really bad experience with them that I bothered to do a little digging into their reputation. Wish I had done that BEFORE ordering!

Gardengal... I really could use about 20 of the Appalachian reds. I have 32 acres and plan on having over a hundred each, different redbuds and dogwoods. Redbuds are fast growing, at least the regular ones are. So small whips would be ok. I can get them for a dollar a piece.

Klehm's Songsparrow has lowered their price on the Appalachians to $29.95 or $83.00 for three. Not a bad price, but I couldn't afford nearly as many. I may take your advice and go that route.

Thanks for the info.

Here is a link that might be useful: Songsparrow

That's a lot of trees that don't live very long...

Redbuds and dogwoods will just be the under-story trees. I am mostly planting native oaks, with a few exotics. I have a variegated English oak and am looking for a cut leaf Daimyo oak and other forms of Daimyo oak.

But mostly natives like bald cypress, magnolia grandiflora, sycamore, etc.

While I am not certain that all redbuds either will reach an age of 25-30 years or more nor that all will succumb to old age or disease before reaching that maturity - I would think that that is a sufficiently long lifespan that planting them is not a recipe for failure. And they are a beautiful tree in flower, with an attractive fall color, and a nice shape in winter. They also reseed well enough that you should have young ones coming up - albeit maybe not exactly where you want them - and so would have successors to the ones which (might) have died. Since they will be understory trees for the most part, I would think that their longevity, or lack thereof, would be irrelevant. In the beginning years (well, after 4-8 years when the whips will have grown enough to begin flowering), then the beauty they would provide, along with dogwoods, and any other spring-flowering understory trees/shrubs should be gorgeous!

Vancleaveterry, since redbuds are native trees, you might see if your state Forestry Dep't has saplings for sale - their prices are usually good ones - the trees will almost certainly be bare root, however, if that matters. They may only have the species, and none of the selected cultivars....

Dibbit,,, Two years ago I bought 60 standard redbud bare-root whips for a dollar a piece from Burgess. They all survived in the pots that I planted them in, but I ended up giving most away, because my land wasn't quite ready to plant them. (Needs another season of bush hogging).

I know you have to be careful ordering from those kind of catalogs but the quality of the redbuds and tulip populars was fine. Do State Forestry Dept's get cheaper than a dollar a piece? I sure could use some dogwoods that cheap.

As far as Appalachian Red's go, I think I will follow Gardengals advice, and get three developed specimens from Songsparrow this year and consider buying 20 whips from Mingo Whole-sellers next year... If I can get them to sell to individual me.

I think I see a session of drawing up some letterhead for "Vancleave Terry Landscaping" or something like that in my future.... ;-)

Thanks!

I have three of them. They are day glow pink... totally different from the lavender pink of normal ones. And yes, redbuds in general were JC Rauston's favorite trees. I met him and toured the arboretum with him just before he was killed. He was such a wonderful friend to horticulture. Wayside Gardens has them.
I have a branch in my kitchen window, and I noticed that the individual blooms look like little birds.