{"id":12337,"date":"2013-05-27T23:17:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T06:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12337"},"modified":"2013-05-27T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T06:24:10","slug":"jacaranda-trees-are-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/jacaranda-trees-are-in-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacaranda Trees are in Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/jacara.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SANTA ANA, CALIF.&#8211;The colorful purple and blue jacaranda trees are blossoming in California, lighting up neighborhoods with brilliant hues. Dripping in blossoms that drench the sky 40 to 100 feet high, the jacaranda tree\u00a0grows well in dry soil and is able to withstand brief frosts. California native Kate Sessions, \u201cMother of Balboa Park,\u201d is credited with importing and popularizing not only the jacaranda, but many trees &amp; plants from Mexico, Europe and other parts of the world. Most of the oldest trees in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/parks\/san-diego-balboa-park.html\">Balboa Park<\/a> (San Diego) were introduced by the horticulturist who never married, but truly loved nature.<\/p>\n<p>Jacarandas can be propagated from grafting, cuttings and seeds though plants grown from seeds take a long time to bloom. The flowers are shaped somewhat like lilies. They are produced in panicles (branched clusters of flowers.) The branches (or racemes) are inflorescence&#8211;clusters of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. The stalked flowers arranged singly along an elongated axis have five-lobed blue to purple-blue corollas. \u00a0You can buy jacaranda trees at local \u00a0nurseries but if you&#8217;re having a hard time finding a place that sells them, contact Armstrong Gardens (armstronggarden.com).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA ANA, CALIF.&#8211;The colorful purple and blue jacaranda trees are blossoming in California, lighting up neighborhoods with brilliant hues. Dripping in blossoms that drench the sky 40 to 100 feet high, the jacaranda tree\u00a0grows well in dry soil and is able to withstand brief frosts. California native Kate Sessions, \u201cMother of Balboa Park,\u201d is credited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}