With its huge heart-shaped leaves, showy spring flowers and long seed pods, the catalpa tree adds serious wow factor to any backyard. It makes a lovely shade tree for the middle of a lawn, but it can ...

I stopped to stare at some buckets of flowers at a farmers market last Sunday. The white flowers, their throats speckled purple and yellow and grouped together on stalks like a candelabra, looked ...

Area catalpa trees finished blooming toward the end of June. Their flowers resemble white orchids and are so beautiful. This is a tree you can grow from seed. I have three in different parts of my ...

Have you ever heard of a “fence-post tree"? Also known as Indian bean tree, cigar tree, catawba, or caterpillar tree, Catalpa is a large tree with showy white, fragrant flowers, massive heart-shaped ...

I stopped to stare at some buckets of flowers at a farmers market recently. The white flowers, their throats speckled purple and yellow and grouped together on stalks like a candelabra, looked almost ...

Catalpas are irregularly shaped trees shrouded in deeply ridged, coarse gray bark. These quirky trees grow quickly and can easily reach heights of 40-70 feet tall. Their rapid growth rate and ...

There was one northern catalpa tree in my neighborhood when I was a child. I didn’t know what it was, but I loved that tree. In June, it had clusters of large bell-shaped, ruffled white flowers with ...

I stopped to stare at some buckets of flowers at a farmers' market last Sunday. The white flowers, their throats speckled purple and yellow and grouped together on stalks like a candelabra, looked ...

I stopped to stare at some buckets of flowers at a farmers market recently. The white flowers, their throats speckled purple and yellow and grouped together on stalks like a candelabra, looked almost ...