Red Buckeye Is Aesculus Pavia
Our Red Buckeye - Aesculus pavia is budding together with leafing out today. Gorgeous inward its 3rd or 4th year. It's a part-shade understory shrub or bush that is native inward our area. Can y'all run into it to the left of the daffodils?
Introduction: Red buckeye, a native of the southeastern US of America that produces vivid cerise flowers, is the best buckeye for this region. It tin survive grown inward all soil textures together with is nearly pest-free. Its flowers, which final several weeks inward spring, attract hummingbirds together with butterflies. 
Culture: Red buckeye tin survive grown inward shade or total sun, although its increment is shrubby together with opened upwards inward shade. It does good inward all soil textures, together with prefers a moist, well-drained soil that is slightly alkaline metal to acidic. It grows best inward good, rich soil. It is moderately drought-tolerant and, if grown inward total sun, should survive mulched together with watered to give-up the ghost along the roots cool together with moist. Red buckeye, which is hardy inward Zones 4 to 8, is most pest-free, although it tin convey severe problems amongst leafage blotch. Related species: There are ii plants closely related to cerise buckeye. Common horsechestnut (A. hippocastanum) is its European counterpart together with cerise horsechestnut (Aesculus 10 carnea) is a hybrid that resulted from a cross betwixt cerise buckeye (A. pavia) together with mutual horsechestnut (A. hippocastanum).
Botanical Information
- Native habitat: Southeastern U.S., from North Carolina through Eastern Texas together with N to Illinois. Growth habit: Oval, circular habit amongst moderate density. Although irregular when young, it becomes symmetrical amongst age. Texture is coarse.
- Tree size: Reaches a acme of fifteen to xx feet, amongst a width of fifteen to 25 feet. In the wild, grows to thirty to 35 feet tall. Growth charge per unit of measurement is boring to moderate.
- Flower together with fruit: Red, showy, tubular flowers are borne inward 4- to 8-inch-long panicles. Fruit is a circular capsule that is 1 to 2 inches inward diameter together with is dry, difficult together with orange-brown. The shiny nuts are toxic to humans.
- Leaf: Opposite, palmate, iii to half dozen inches long. Leaves emerge early on inward spring, are nighttime dark-green inward summertime together with offering piddling color modify inward fall. Leaves, which are toxic to discourage herbivory, normally drib inward piece of cake September.
- Hardiness: Winter hardy to USDA Zone 4.
Get 1 to endeavor if y'all don't already convey them inward your garden!