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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Trees and Shrubs => Topic started by: John J on May 23, 2013, 09:43:22 AM

Title: Jacaranda
Post by: John J on May 23, 2013, 09:43:22 AM

Springtime in Cyprus with the blue of the Jacaranda in competition with the blue of the sky.

Title: Re: Jacaranda
Post by: Alisdair on May 23, 2013, 10:17:40 AM

Lovely, John (and specially so for me, as Helena and I have never been out at our Greek house at a time to see our own two trees flowering!)

Title: Re: Jacaranda
Post by: Hilary on February 19, 2015, 09:30:29 AM

A South African Airlines postcard. Probably from 1964 /5
Jacaranda-time in Pretoria

Title: Re: Jacaranda
Post by: David Dickinson on February 19, 2015, 10:22:34 AM

Brings back memories for me too. Such an intense colour in the streets of Cairo where I lived for a couple of years. I saw a tree just outside Rome last year and got some seeds. I now have 4 baby trees which I will plant out around the city while nobody is looking. I probably won't live long enough to get the benefit but hope that at least one will survive so that somebody will. :)

Title: Re: Jacaranda
Post by: Charithea on February 19, 2015, 10:41:12 AM

Hi David, don't worry you will see your trees prosper as they grow very tall quickly and flower quickly too. Our are losing their leaves now and as soon as spring arrives so will the flowers and then the leaves.

Title: Re: Jacaranda
Post by: Joanna Savage on February 19, 2015, 06:53:24 PM

Plants and their associations. Whenever I see  a jacaranda in flower immediately I become anxious. In my part of Australia jacarandas flowered at exam time and that  meant more hours of study. Thirteen three hour papers, how did we survive? Fortunately, a lot of it was plant related and has provided a useful training. I wonder if others have not-so-good feelings about beautiful plants for the wrong reasons.

Title: Re: Jacaranda
Post by: Alisdair on February 28, 2015, 05:57:16 PM

Unlike Joanna Jacarandas for me bring nothing but good memories - particularly of this great dzong in Bhutan, where even under the coldest greyest clouds they seemed full of light and joy

Title: Re: Jacaranda
Post by: Fleur Pavlidis on April 27, 2015, 05:38:15 PM

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