One of the trees that brings me questions every year is one that has some extremely positive and extremely negative points. It's the royal paulownia, also known as the empress tree. The royal ...

A. The ‘Royal Empress’ is a fast-growing, brittle tree with big, messy leaves. The tree will grow around New York City. I would not plant it here. Q. Why are the leaves of my desert rose rotting and ...

Areader from the San Luis Obispo area sent me a colorful advertisement that proclaimed, "The Royal Empress Zooms To A Flowering, Scented, Shade Tree In Just One Season!!!" and asked whether the "Royal ...

It all started with the world’s fastest-growing tree — the Royal Empress Tree. That’s an auspicious place to start a business, but true to its roots, the DTC large plants seller FastGrowingTrees.com ...