Northern Catalpa in Blooms - White Flowers on Native Tree - July 2025

A few weeks back (this post is going live on July 1st, but these photos are from mid/late June), a stretch of our backyard was covered in white flowers.  On the lawn.  On top of shrubs.  On our little, hidden picnic table.  A carpet of white flower heads.  It looks like this:

That means it is Northern Catalpa season.  We have two mature Catalpa trees - native trees.  (We have a small one growing near our patio, but it is still a twig.). They both bloomed this year in a prolific manner.  In mid-to-late June these trees put on a show.  The flowers stay on the trees for a while, then fall.  The week the trees were in bloom, we experienced a couple of days of heavy rain.  I'm thinking that caused the blooms to fall-off faster than normal.

I posted about these flowers in a similar way in June of 2023.  In that post, I also included a shot of the tree.  Here's the current state of this large Catalpa tree in our yard:

In looking back at the 2023 post, I can see quite a bit of new foliage growth on this Catalpa tree - mostly down near the bottom.  Below is an animated version showing the tree growth over two full years.  The limbs are more-full now, with the branching reaching far lower/closer to the ground.