Catalpa Trees Are Making a Comeback—Here's How to Add One To Your Yard first appeared on Dengarden on Jun 14, 2025 This story was originally reported by Dengarden on Jun 14, 2025, where it first ...

Tough and Adaptable . Catalpa is a tough, adaptable tree that has a moderately long life—60 years or so—but trunks on very large trees often contain rot.

Learn about the beautiful catalpa tree and its fascinating worms, and how these species—including two trees native to the U.S.— benefit the ecosystem.

Catalpa trees release compounds that repel gnats and mosquitos. However, a full-sized catalpa tree will grow 40 feet high, making them too large for many locations.

Catalpa trees can be messy as the popcorn blooms descend all over the driveway and yard in July. That might be why folks don’t plant them much anymore. For now, ...

Catalpa is a deciduous tree that grows 50 to 80 feet tall and up to 40 feet wide with an irregular shape. Massive trunks support multiple crowns of large upward reaching limbs.

A catalpa tree is in bloom Friday, June 6, 2025, at Janet Johnston Housenick & William D. Housenick Memorial Park in Bethlehem Township. Kurt Bresswein | For lehighvalleylive.com ...

Catalpas make large bold trees in the landscape with huge trunks as they age. In East Texas, I've actually seen a few catalpa "orchards" where the trees are topped annually, ...

Catalpa Trees on the Capitol Plaza Grounds. Tree expert Craig Burnside from Wood Rodgers Inc, found some old catalpas on the Capitol Plaza Grounds that were slowly coming out of winter hibernation ...