QuestionWe drove from Rochester, NY to North Carolina through Ohio and W. Virginia. Along the road we saw beautiful purple color everywhere in the woods and it grew as small bushes and we saw it as big as a tree. When we first saw the trees they looked sort of like a flowering crab apple but then we saw the bushes and we ruled that out. It was not wisteria or lilac. Any ideas? They were small purple flowers. Thanks so much for any suggestions I could look up. I don't know where "zone 6" is so if this is out of your region you don't have to respond. Thanks again.
AnswerIt would be helpful if I knew what time of the year you saw these. Check out http://www.paulownia.org/; if that is not it, give me the season of bloom.
However much you might have liked it (if that is what it is), I cannot recommend planting it. Its prevalence along your route shows how invasive it is.
