The blooming of jacarandas often signals the start of pre-summer, the most hopeful time of year. Vacation mode nears when their blue-ish purple flowers holler “party!”
B. Ramón Alvarado, sustainability specialist at Community Corporation of Santa Monica, is a jacarandista like me. I met him in the course of asking people a two-part question I recommend you ask too: What are your favorite L.A. trees, and what do you love about them?
Read more at the Los Angeles Times.