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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio -- Norbert Koehn chips away at a huge piece of catalpa wood, carving an image of St. Francis in his workshop at his homestead called the "The Koehn Sculptors' Sanctuary on Green" in ...

Over the Memorial Day weekend, I saw something I have wanted to see for a long time. I always had heard of the notorious Catalpa worm but had never seen one firsthand. Now, before the reader thinks ...

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