Question: I live in southwest Orlando. Do purple jacaranda trees grow here? Answer: Many gardeners would like to grow the attractive purple-flowering jacarandas that bloom during late spring. However, ...

Jacaranda trees canopy a Santa Ana street in early June 2013. As June approaches this year, jacaranda fans await their flamboyant bloom. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times) Angelenos who adore the ...

Like many of their human counterparts, they are transplants to Los Angeles, trying to make it in a town of newcomers. For two weeks in late spring, they burst forth in their fancy best, shedding their ...

The trees’ color is especially vibrant against Southern California’s May gray skies. L.A.’s oldest jacarandas are 80 to 100 years old, and there are estimated to be some 20,000 of them along public ...

A jacaranda tree blooms with purple flowers. - Pulpitis/Getty Images When they're in full bloom, jacaranda trees are some of the most gorgeous flowering trees around. For gardeners and homeowners who ...

When you look up at a vibrant purple jacaranda tree–or a bush of bougainvillea, sprout of birds of paradise, or fragrant patch of jasmine, for that matter–you can thank Kate Sessions, a pioneering ...

The pretty pop of color showed up a little early, making the blooms appear a little thinner because of our warm winter, horticulturalists say. Former Times Staff The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a ...

It's hard to miss the jacaranda trees this year — the 12,000 or so of them thriving along city streets, anyway — as they explode in color all over the city and county of San Diego. If it seems like ...