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Related: About this forumOcelot II
(115,267 posts)It's beautiful anyhow, wish we could grow more flashy flowers in these parts.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)They grow all over Los Angeles and many neighborhoods have rows of them as they meet over the tops of the streets! Magnificent sight!
enid602
(8,524 posts)But nothing compares to the Coral Eucalypti on San Vicente Boulevard.
Ocelot II
(115,267 posts)Hekate
(90,189 posts)George McGovern
(5,410 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)planetc
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(149,296 posts)IcyPeas
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(149,296 posts)MLAA
(17,162 posts)Nice pic!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)I"m sorry you didn't succeed in growing one.
yardwork
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(149,296 posts)Loryn
(941 posts)I had forgotten about the Jacarandas. I miss that messy purple carpet all over the streets.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)Diamond_Dog
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(149,296 posts)usonian
(9,413 posts)I'll be on the lookout. Seems that I should have seen one in the bay area. In the foothills now.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)AllaN01Bear
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)So glad you like it so much!
Deuxcents
(15,776 posts)I have a gorgeous Royal Poinciana in my back yard with bright red/orange blooms. Theyre from the same family of trees, I understand. Both start to bloom here in south Florida every May. Thanks for this beautiful photo.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)Beautiful, colorful trees bring us joy!
Thanks for your lovely words.
bahboo
(16,234 posts)we moved here in 2006...remember seeing them for the first time. Beautiful...
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)Hekate
(90,189 posts)Very popular in Santa Barbara County, especially right along the coast. My former neighborhood in Goleta had a tunnel of jacaranda right around the corner from my house.
My daughter used to complain about getting sticky purple feet on the way to elementary school, but I thought that was a wussy complaint, given the tropical specimens at University of Hawaii, my alma mater. There was something there that dropped huge seed pods that would glue themselves to my sandals and were quite difficult to scrape off.
Give me purple rain
usonian
(9,413 posts)"Little Apples" in Spanish.
When the berries (about 1 cm?) ripen, they get sticky, all several million of them.
No mercy for the shoes.
I get clouds of bees when they are blooming, which feels like all year, though it obviously isn't.
A constant buzz, all over the property.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)A tunnel of Jacaranda! What a sight that must have been...
Purple rain is the thing!