Rising Sun Redbud

Rising Sun still brightens the whole left side of the garden, with chartreuse leaves and warm new tips holding above the grapevine and flowering beds.

Rising Sun is still the luminous overhead anchor in the July garden, its yellow-green canopy holding above a fully knitted mix of flowers, foliage, and vegetables.

Rising Sun is the bright left-side canopy in this wide late-June view, setting the light tone for the whole back garden wall.

The redbud is still carrying bright chartreuse summer growth over the back bed while orange milkweed blooms hard below.

A week deeper into June, the redbud is still the brightest overhead structure in the back garden.

The redbud is still carrying a strong yellow-green glow, with fresh amber tips catching the hard midday light above the shaded bed.

From the path, the redbud reads as a luminous ceiling over the purple salvia, hostas, grapevine, and lower green layers.

The redbud has settled into a luminous green-gold canopy, still bright enough to anchor the whole raised bed.

The redbud kicks off with magenta blooms on bare wood, the first color of the season.

Each flush of new growth is a different color — starting lime, shifting through apricot, settling to chartreuse.

The neon leaf progression becoming more visible as more growth pushes out.

One of the most photographed plants in the yard, the gold-orange-green gradient at its most vivid.

The whole tree showing its layered color progression from top to bottom.

The early neon fading to chartreuse as the leaves mature, still a beautiful gradient.

What the tree looks like in full summer leaf — useful context for the spring progression.