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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In my travels this past week I’ve seen a lot of catalpa trees covered with clusters of bell-shaped white flowers. Northern catalpas are native to this part of the country, but there are other catalpas ...

I stopped to stare at some buckets of flowers at a farmers market last Sunday. The white flowers, their throats speckled purple and yellow and grouped together on stalks like a candelabra, looked ...

The 33 Northern catalpa tree saplings arranged in a council ring along a Wing Park trail in Elgin aren’t much to look at now, but Rob Vandermolen promises that in 20 years, they will become a living, ...

My favorite blooms in early July decorate an unusual tree, once commonly found throughout Illinois and other nearby states. It’s a catalpa tree that was growing in the backyard when I moved in, and ...

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 ...