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Can You I.D. This Tree?
It's blooming just south of the Butterfly Garden today, and it's beautiful.
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The catalpas – including this one – are in bloom right now!
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Def a Catalpa. Had one in my backyard in Waldwick when I lived across the street from Rob F.
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Also, props to Rob Fanning for teaching me what a catalpa is back in my early CF days. 🙂 (The warblers like them!)
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I can’t see the leaves very well to be sure, but I think it looks like it might be the catalpa tree. There is one just south of the butterfly garden, and this weekend it looked like it was about to bloom. The catalpa is the tree that eventually has the string-bean-looking bits on it. (There is also one by Phair’s pond, just by the bend near the common milkweed and across from what I think of as the magic pin oak. There’s also one near Barking Dog Corner, but not technically on The Celery Farm. There may be others I’m not thinking of.) https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/catalpa/speciosa/
… Assuming I don’t have the wrong tree. 🙂
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julie
The catalpas – including this one – are in bloom right now!
Forrest Munger
Def a Catalpa. Had one in my backyard in Waldwick when I lived across the street from Rob F.
julie
Also, props to Rob Fanning for teaching me what a catalpa is back in my early CF days. 🙂 (The warblers like them!)
julie
I can’t see the leaves very well to be sure, but I think it looks like it might be the catalpa tree. There is one just south of the butterfly garden, and this weekend it looked like it was about to bloom. The catalpa is the tree that eventually has the string-bean-looking bits on it. (There is also one by Phair’s pond, just by the bend near the common milkweed and across from what I think of as the magic pin oak. There’s also one near Barking Dog Corner, but not technically on The Celery Farm. There may be others I’m not thinking of.) https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/catalpa/speciosa/
… Assuming I don’t have the wrong tree. 🙂