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Jacaranda

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John J

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Jacaranda
« 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.
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Cyprus Branch Head. Gardens in a field 40 m above sea level with reasonably fertile clay soil.
"Aphrodite emerged from the sea and came ashore and at her feet all manner of plants sprang forth" John Deacon (13thC AD)
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Alisdair

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Re: Jacaranda
« Reply #1 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!)
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Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society

Hilary

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Re: Jacaranda
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2015, 09:30:29 AM »
A South African Airlines postcard. Probably from 1964 /5
Jacaranda-time in Pretoria
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

David Dickinson

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Re: Jacaranda
« Reply #3 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. :)
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I have a small garden in Rome, Italy. Some open soil, some concrete, some paved. Temperatures in winter occasionally down to 0°C. Summer temperatures up to 40°C in the shade. There are never watering restrictions but, of course, there is little natural water for much of June, July and August.
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Charithea

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Re: Jacaranda
« Reply #4 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.
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I garden in Cyprus, in a flat old farming field, alt. approx. 30 m asl.

Joanna Savage

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Re: Jacaranda
« Reply #5 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.
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Alisdair

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Re: Jacaranda
« Reply #6 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
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Alisdair Aird
Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society
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Fleur Pavlidis

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Re: Jacaranda
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2015, 05:38:15 PM »
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