Q. Six years ago I was given a 2-foot jacaranda tree, potted and grown from seeds from a large, healthy, blooming tree. It has been planted and grown to about 8 feet but has never had a blossom on ...

However, to others, jacarandas create nothing but sticky messes on their sidewalks, cars and anywhere else the flowers fall followed by the trees’ seed pods.

Step two was building tree-planting robots. BioCarbon Engineering’s fleet of drones flies ten feet off the ground, gently firing seed pods into the earth at the rate of two per second.

Each fall, we get questions about the pretty tree with the pinkish flowers. However, these aren't flowers but rather highly decorative, papery salmon-pink seed pods.

“The Jacaranda no doubt still has secrets to reveal, and in a major milestone, scientists sequenced its genome for the first time in 2021,” he said.

I am hoping you will be able to identify this tree between our home and our neighbor. Each year at this time the leaves fall and are replaced with the seed pods which are very dry and brittle ...

Jacaranda releases winged seeds which are dispersed by wind. Jacarandas are unique, beautiful trees when in bloom. They can be seen in the Bel Air/New Haven area.

Sophora tree is messy but seed pods are a winter feast for birds.

GROWING curiosities from seed is a great way to cheer up dull, wintry days while the garden is out of action.

Bold plans are underway to transform a South Australian country road into a "purple haze", with thousands of blooming jacaranda trees to create a tourist attraction.

Painterly effects: Jacaranda trees flower for just a few weeks in early November. Dallas Kilponen For most urban gardeners, jacarandas are best enjoyed beyond the home garden.