I have them things sprouting up all over my yard, I have to keep pulling them up or digging them out from my fence. Very quick growers, and their flowers are beautiful. One of my favorite trees. I love the look of the old trees. But I wonder how their root system is, I'd like to plant hostas under my young one.

Karen

I have seen hostas and coleus around the foot of a 12 ft catalpa. It's beautiful! I saw it at Olbrich Gardens.

If I grow it from seed early next year,what will be the height at the end of the season which is around this time?

I like these trees too. Gorgeous exotic flowers. Did you give them plenty of space and do you have room for 5 of them?? I've got a 45 year old Catalpa speciosa in front of a rental house (where I previously lived). It wasn't really sited that well by the previous owner, because it's only a few feet from a sidewalk and many branches overhang the road. I think it should have been planted back farther. This is a large, somewhat imposing tree when it matures.

The two trees are like 13 ft apart. However, they're about 8 ft from the property line. I'm not sure if I should transplant them. The area where I planted them is the perfect place because they will give nice shade to the patio I recently built.

I've seen them here and they are large. I've also seen some that are narrower. Prolly, they might have been cut intentionally.

They are gorgeous! I don't have any pics of the one I saw near our place with flowers. Next time I go there, I'll make sure they're blooming! :)

Some folks are also pruning them down to 3 ft. It makes a nice large bush. :) I'll try that too!

For anyone not familiar with Catalpa flowers, here's a picture of a cluster from my tree:

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Karen

Gorgeous! I've read that they're fragrant. Can you smell them from 10 feet away or you have to get close to the flower?

I haven't noticed any scent to the flowers, at least not that I can remember.

Karen

My Northern Catalpa trees have a mild scent that I can smell from at least 25 feet from the tree when it is blooming. The scent reminds me of Honeydew melon and plum tree blossoms, a very nice smell to me.

I guess I just don't remember any smells, but I'll pay attention to it next year.

Karen

Very nice flower picture Karen.

I like Catalpa very much. With winter coming up the way their branching structure always gets my attention is on my mind.

Yea, catalpa grows all over the place where i live. These trees are suppose to be attractive to hummingbirds. There is a gigantic catalpa near my house thats about 6 feet in diameter.

Here is a catalpa tree that I posted here about 2 months ago. I wish my catalpa would come out like this.

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