Purple Robe Locust
Wow - says it when you look at the spring, early summer flower display put on by the Purple Robe Locust. Leif came in the office yesterday all excited after checking one of our production blocks. Grabbing the camera he took me back to the rack where the Purple Robe Locust were. These trees are large shade trees - - 50′ tall by 30′ wide with bronze-green leaves which turn yellow in the fall. The tree is hardy to Zone 3. The beautiful globe shaped locust has these dark rose-pink flowers and foliage that emerges a bronzy-red before turning a bronzy-green for the summer. Another nice feature - it’s drought tolerant! These trees are for sale - however - they cannot go home with you until mid-summer once they are fully rooted into their containers. We’ll mark one sold and call you when they’re ready for their new homes! These probably won’t be available for long - it seems to be a very popular tree this year!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I have a Purple Red Locust and it’s about 3 years old. This fall I trimmed it as it was getting too large. I hoped that I hadn’t harmed it and in the spring there was a large volume of foliage but no flowers but that was ok. Some flowers are coming out at this late stage but the problem is that a lot of it’s leaves are turning yellow and falling off. I don’t know what the problem is as I’ve done nothing different to it. Could it be too much water or not enough? We used to get the fly that makes round shaped holes in the leafs but not this year. I’m baffled and I hope someone can give me a solution to my problem. Thanks