ooh! ooh?

 My neighbors have been ooh'ing and ah'ing over my redbud tree this year. It's an eastern redbud, Cercis canadensis, which I guess is pretty enough, and surprisingly floriferous after this past winter's miserable cold.  I myself have been sighing over the Oklahoma redbuds around town, which are a much more vibrant red-purple, and to be honest, this past winter I'd been thinking about taking my redbud out. I don't think that I would replace it with an Oklahoma redbud, just opening the space and allowing more sunlight to reach the plants below, which have become light starved as the redbud tree grows.