AFFECTION FOR CATALPA BLOSSOMS. Catalpa has a lot going for it besides beautiful flowers. It tolerates all sorts of growing conditions: heat, cold, wet soils, dry soils, pollution, sun and shade.

Catalpa blooms are white with yellow-orange inner throats and dark purple speckling. The purple markings are more prominent on the Southern catalpa. The sweetly-scented blooms attract insects ...

Catalpa. One of my favorite trees. I’d always admired the blossoms en masse and from afar, as they decorated enormous trees. Now, here they were, up close and bunched together in buckets.

catalpa blossoms. Catalpa has a lot going for it besides beautiful flowers. It tolerates all sorts of growing conditions: heat, cold, wet soils, dry soils, pollution, sun and shade.

Catalpa blooms are white with yellow-orange inner throats and dark purple speckling. The purple markings are more prominent on the Southern catalpa. The sweetly-scented blooms attract insects ...

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 ...

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 catalpa in bloom is like a tree full of orchid blossoms. Lee Reich The Associated Press. View Comments. View Comments. I stopped to stare at some buckets of flowers at a farmers market recently.