© Norman Winter/TNS/TNS The red horse chestnut is a cross between the red buckeye and the European chestnut.The red buckeye blooms have started so let the hummingbird and butterfly season commence. This report came in the form of a photograph from an excited gardener who wanted it identified. He was seeing it for the first time and was riveted by its beauty. © Norman Winter/TNS/TNS The red horse chestnut can reach 30-feet tall. This one was seen blooming at Callaway Gardens. I still get thrilled when I see them at the forests’ edge or along the roadside. You have to admit it is pretty amazing how nature times blooming in sequence with the return of the hummingbirds. The red buckeye, known botanically as Aesculus pavia is cold hardy in zones 4-8 and native from Texas to Illinois to Ohio and down the eastern seaboard to Florida. It excels as an…
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