Los Angeles Times: Tree of the Week: Hybrid chitalpa, available in two varieties
In the search for better trees for harsh, dry sites, we find only a few with showy flowers and cool green leaves. Here is one to consider: Chitalpa. The name is a contraction of Chilopsis and Catalpa, ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal: What’s to blame for sudden demise of chitalpa tree?
Q: Our chitalpa tree underperformed last year after 10 years of growth. This year, two-thirds of it is dead. How do I tell if it was verticillium wilt disease or bacterial leaf scorch disease that ...
Q: Is it common for the chitalpa tree to partially defoliate in the summer? What would be the optimum amount of water for 15-foot chitalpa tree growing in Kingman, Arizona? A: Chitalpa, like some ...
It will take City of Kitchener forestry crews "at least three to four weeks" to clean up after a violent storm hit Waterloo Region and damaged thousands of local trees. Kim Nihls, the City of ...
Q: We recently had an open house party here at our new home. We had a couple of neighbors, along with our family. Auntie G. says she really liked the desert willow tree that is planted in the backyard ...
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...