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Jacaranda at Laidley Queensland

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Photo of a Jacaranda tree taken a week or so ago at Laidley Qld. Jacarandas flower in Oct/November and mark the start of the exam period at High Schools and Universities.

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3 hours ago, ozjohn said:

Photo of a Jacaranda tree taken a week or so ago at Laidley Qld. Jacarandas flower in Oct/November and mark the start of the exam period at High Schools and Universities.

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Very nice. Start of your Summer in Oz. Start of our long, dark miserable Winter in the UK.

 

 

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3 hours ago, terrysoldpennies said:

beautiful colour , is it native only to Australia.

I am not certain but I think the Jacaranda is native to Southern Africa. Certainly when I was young my parents drank Jacaranda Sherry, which was South African. (My mother was born there.)

I still have a "pottle" - half a demijohn size bottle - with the Jacaranda Sherry label on it. Currently filled with home made Apple port...

 

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Yes a spectacular tree native to Brazil widely planted around the world. I've seen them growing in LA and Spain as well. Grafton, NSW holds a Jacaranda Festival every year in November I'm sure they are grown in South Africa.

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I have one, grown from seeds I collected in the mountains between Portugal and Spain in 1986- still  going strong

in a pot. They won't flower in a pot usually, and only then on last year's growth, so pruning them to get them into a greenhouse every year

pretty well ensures that I won't see flowers. i haven't pruned it this year, since it's going into an over- wintering enclosure

that has more height to it, but I'm not crossing my fingers!

 

A famously 'messy' tree- don't plant one by a path or you will be sweeping forever...:)

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Messy perhaps but the carpet of spent blue flowers are a sight to behold.

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