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 ...

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 ...

As one goes around town about one’s daily routine, there are city trees that become like old friends – steadfast and true amidst the changing of the seasons and standing like sentinels through the ...

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 ...

Continuing with our series on blooming trees, the Northern Catalpa speciosa is an interesting, mostly deciduous and beautiful tree with gorgeous blooms in spring. In some areas, the large leaves can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

They line both sides of the Palace Green and bloom each spring into a magnificient sea of white and purple flowers. Planted in the same spot where their predecessors grew more than 260 years ago, the ...

So with that in mind, it is with tremendous pleasure that I introduce you to Long Branch Ontario’s newest recognized Heritage Tree by Forests Ontario — a 125-year-old grand lady named ‘The Applebee ...

CATALPA WORMS eat only catalpa foliage and do not kill the trees. Catalpa worms get their name from the catalpa tree that they host on. There are two native species of catalpa in America, Catalpa ...