Catalpa Trees Are Making a Comeback—Here's How to Add One To Your Yard first appeared on Dengarden on Jun 14, 2025 This story ...

A tornado has uprooted and destroyed a State Champion tree ... used for research. "Now we have all hands on deck," he said. There is some damage throughout the arboretum, but the loss of the ...

Removing tree bark is a key preliminary step in the lumber process. It's removed by rolling the log between two sets of rotating blades. The process also creates a more uniform rounded log shape.

Tea tree oil uses run the gamut, from household cleaning to pest control. It’s time to ditch harsh chemicals and welcome this plant-powered wonder into your cleaning and homecare arsenal.

Like many things in nature, the catalpa tree and catalpa tree worms have a special symbiotic relationship. More than once in my life, I’ve interfered with a plant, critter or bug I was ...

Only one catalpa tree stands at the northwest entrance ... It is unknown at this time whether catalpa wood was used in building Nevada’s railroads – the Nevada State Railroad Museum and the Nevada ...

The wood is lightweight, and the heartwood is resistant to deterioration when placed in the ground for several years. The southern catalpa tree also has medicinal uses—a tea made from the bark ...

It is gone from my backyard now, having taken up the same space where a catalpa tree once grew. Decades ago, the catalpa had to be removed. When you lose a tree, just as when you lose a beloved ...

There are many common names for this lovely tree: flowering willow, desert catalpa, willow-leaved catalpa ... branches became the foundational coil for baskets. Mature wood was used to frame ...

It’s still widely used in China, Korea, and Japan for making the soundboards of stringed musical instruments. In the U.S., princess tree is a popular wood in boat-building, surfboards ...