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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve driven through the East Texas countryside lately, you’ve noticed spectacular white catalpa trees blooming. There are two native species of catalpa in America: Catalpa bignoniodes (southern ...

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 ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The northern catalpa is mostly ...

Q. How can I start a catalpa tree from seed? I have one with lots of seeds but can't get them to grow in a pot or in the outdoors. I have tried freezing the seeds but nothing comes up. My son would ...

The street where I grew up in Connecticut was lined with Norway maple trees, mature enough to arch over the roadway, providing lovely shade. The outlier among them was the catalpa tree on our ...

HAMDEN — The Hamden Tree Commission has named the Northern catalpa tree (Catalpa speciosa) as September’s Hamden Notable Tree. “This particular catalpa is located on private property in the Mount ...