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 ...

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 ...

Two women planting potted tree saplings in a backyard. - Nikola Stojadinovic/Getty Images Fall gives you the perfect opportunity to experiment with the best ways to plant trees in your yard. While you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...