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 ...

Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such as the environment, invasive species, sustainability, and food issues. She holds a master's in Southern Studies from ...

Question: I have noticed a tree with large leaves that is flowering right now. What is it? Answer: The tree is northern Catalpa. Catalpa is an interesting tree that is related to Trumpet Creeper and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The Catalpa tree's name (Catalpa sp.) made it into English and Latin via ...

Last fall, I blogged about a catalpa sapling I pruned. The results of that pruning have been evolving through the summer. The tree is a wildling that just happened to sprout from seed along the west ...

When the possible town sites were being explored for the railroad, the area that would become Broken Arrow must have been appealing. It was relatively flat with good dirt and few trees. These features ...

Like many things in nature, the catalpa tree and catalpa tree worms have a special symbiotic relationship. More than once in my life, I’ve interfered with a plant, critter or bug I was unfamiliar with ...

Looking for a hardy native tree that is anything but boring? Catalpa trees are known for their knockout flowers and distinctive, green bean-shaped seedpods. Having previously fallen out of fashion ...