Texas Redbud is the small ornamental tree anxious to show its purple/pink colored blossoms before it leaf’s out in late February and early March throughout Central Texas. Native to the Austin and surrounding areas since it grows on thin calcareous soils, it is an easy tree to grow and adapt to your area whether it’s full sun or as an understory tree in dappled shade. This tree tolerates hot, dry areas once established as it has heart shaped waxy leaves that help retard transpiration. They grows 15 to 25 feet tall as a single trunk tree and are also available as the more natural looking multi-trunk which tend to finish a little shorter.