How can I start a catalpa tree from seed? I have one with lots of seeds ... The seeds may well take 4 to 8 weeks to germinate - or they may surprise you and come up sooner. Plant them twice ...

You can fool such seeds into growing sooner by keeping them cool ... for two or three months before stratification. Sycamore and catalpa are among the few fall-ripening seeds that don’t need ...

They also reseed freely in most areas where they are established. Catalpa trees grow easily from seeds, which germinate fairly rapidly without any special treatment. You can direct sow the seed ...

Seeds must be ripe before sowing ... fellow Master Gardener Ines Sastre De Jesus wrote in this column about catalpa trees as she had been growing them in her Spicer garden since coming to the ...

It isn’t just that they survive that cold; some seeds quite literally need that cold blast to germinate in spring. Temperatures as high as 39-40°F are sufficient for this process, so few ...

Trees, shrubs, annuals and herbs. Really, most things growing in the garden, woods and fields can be produced by seed. But there are a few exceptions. Some plants are what we call dioecious ...

Germination is a crucial stage in the life of a plant as it will leave the stage of seed resistant to various environmental constraints (climatic conditions, absence of nutritive elements ...