Check out a slide show of these beautiful purple blooms. I remember an e-mail from five years back. It was from a man in England who wanted to know what the purple trees were. He had been visiting ...

What would Los Angeles be like without the nearly 30,000 jacaranda trees on city streets? It depends on who you ask. "The tree stands for California at its worst: all flash, no substance, a pain left ...

For a few particularly grey weeks of spring, the lavender blossoms of jacaranda trees are everywhere you go, a parade of pastel fireworks exploding along Los Angeles’s streets. You not only see them, ...

May gray and June gloom could be even gloomier this year. To the chagrin of botanists, florists and spring-loving San Diegans throughout the county, the lilac-colored blooms of the jacaranda trees are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — If it’s mid-May ...

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Jacaranda season is beginning across Australia as an explosion of vivid blue spreads in a wave from north to south. We think of jacarandas as a signature tree of various Australian cities. Sydney, ...

I met my first jacaranda tree in the spring of 1989. My parents had recently moved us from a granny flat in a rough part of Anaheim to a three-bedroom, two-bath, one-swimming pool American dream in a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s the time of year every Applecross resident dreads. Jacaranda season. It’s a two week slice of the calendar year perfect for ...