This guy was the MVP of Utah this month. Anna and I feel like we are in Hawaii when we go back to Holladay after a prolonged stay in Tucson. We get excited to roll down the window and smell the green of the Salt Lake neighborhoods. And we nerdily point out the different plants we like. I'm always looking up at trees. She's always looking down at flowers.
We found one tree that catered to both our tastes. The Western Catalpa is around the Wasatch Front and it stands out in June with its white, bell-shaped flowers. It's tall and stately, with large branches from which hang shoe string pods and heart-shaped, tropical-looking flowers.
The tree supports large amounts of snow, but before doing that changes from yellow to a dull brown in the fall.
It's a litter bug, but seems to be worth it for the month of June when it looks like a tree carrying white flowers. Awesome.
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