As a child, I remember looking at our May Plant of the Month and wondering if it was where string beans came from. My dad ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. white flowers of a catalpa tree With its huge heart-shaped leaves, showy spring flowers and long seed pods, the catalpa tree adds ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catalpas are irregularly shaped trees shrouded in deeply ridged, coarse gray bark. These quirky trees grow quickly and can easily ...

Catalpa worms get their name from the catalpa tree that they host on. There are two native species of catalpa in America, Catalpa bignoniodes (southern catalpa) and Catalpa speciosa (northern catalpa) ...

There are a couple of catalpa trees a few blocks from where I live, crowded into a narrow curb strip so tightly they’ve started bulging over the sidewalk. I’d wondered about them for years, and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Spectacular in bloom with big, upright clusters of white flowers set off ...

As I write this, the many catalpa trees surrounding our farmyard are raining leaves. Last night we had our first frost, an occasion that causes all the catalpas to simultaneously shed all their leaves ...

Most Arkansas anglers learn at an early age how to recognize the catalpa tree, with its big heart-shaped leaves, spotted white flowers and long cigarlike seed pods. Across its range, which stretches ...

Participants in Richmond’s day camp for children visited the site of a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp Tuesday and learned about the trees for which it is named. “Eighty years ago, the men who ...