Northern Catalpa Tree In Bloom - June 2023

There are big portions of our back lawn that currently look like this photo below - littered in white, tropical-looking blooms that are falling from a pair of mature Northern Catalpa trees that we inherited in our Zone 5B, Northern Illinois backyard:

Below is a look at the mid-yard Northern Catalpa tree that is fully-leaf'd out and full of white blooms:

Both Nat and I have grown to really like the Catalpa trees - and their large leaves, white blooms and layered limbs.  

I've posted about the Catalpas before - here's one from Fall 2021.  And from 2019 when I posted about it for the first time.  And, I've been growing some seedlings in containers, too.  More on these in a future post.