Bloemen-flowers Paulownia tomentosa

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Paulownia tomentosa is a very special tree because of its large leaves.
The large fresh green leaves grow to over 50 cm long and wide and provide a beautiful shady place in your garden.
This leaf does not appear until the end of flowering.
This very fast growing tree owes its name to the daughter of a tsar named Anna Paulownia.
This tree can grow fast, in a good year it grows at least 2 meters and young plants have a trunk circumference of 60/70 cm in 7 years time. Paulownia doesn't grow completely straight, branches grow and bit with a twist.

In May, beautiful large violet-colored trumpet shaped flowers appear on the in winter leaf-losing tree, as previously noted before the leaf comes to the tree. These flowers smell delicious and look very special on the bare wood.
The core of the flower is yellow / orange in color.
The individual flowers grow on flower-ears in clusters.
Young shoots can get some frost damage in the winter and can be pruned in the spring.
Older branches do not suffer from our winters. If you prune the tree back completely, it will turn over for 1 year with flowers.
Only the flower buds that are made in the autumn for flowering in the spring can be damaged during a more severe winter. This results in less flowering in the spring, with a mild winter the Keizersboom flowers very exuberantly in May.
In June the Paulownia tomentosa gets winged seeds that take hold during the summer.
Winter hardness zone 6b (-20ºC).