Whenever I see the lavender flowers of jacaranda, I am dazzled by the beauty of it Like it came straight from the heaven. Mesmerizing color and the vibe the tree/flowers bring is priceless. Usually those bloom in summer and the flowers drop making a carpet of violet petals around the tree. It is not very ornamental like Japanese maples or rhododendron, not very fragrant like magnolia, not complicated like wisterias, but it is very much elegant. You have my heart Jacarandas! A beautiful lavender spring in summer! I want to be buried under a jacaranda tree. And every time you visit me there, I want you to think of me as those flowers(in summer only but that is ok). I can live with that. Well, I'll be dead then. So, that will be a paradox :) But you get the gist of it, don't you? I want you to think about that jacaranda tree which I wanted to plant once we buy our first home. You said that we'd have lot of work cleaning up the petals, but added that you