Jacaranda Common name: Jacaranda	Indicates sun requirement      Full sun      Half sun      Semi-shade      Shade   Indicates Water requirement         High water requirement.     Water every 1-2 days.          Medium water requirement.     Water every 3-7 days.          Low water requirement.     Water every 7-14 days.
Description Jacarandas are native to the drier tropical and sub-tropical areas of Central and South America. Prized as a fast growing, deciduous and spreading tree, the Jacaranda is suitable as a shade tree and for visual effect. It has the most spectacular mauve-blue bell-shaped flowers from late spring to early summer. These are then followed by a soft almost fern like foliage borne along its many branchlets. Often used as an avenue tree, spent flowers form a spectacular carpet of blue underneath them, which makes them also a very suitable focus plant on a lawn for instance. Very pretty! Grows to approximately 8-10 metres in the home garden.
Growing Jacarandas need full sun to set flowers and a fertile well-drained soil. In dry regions build up your soil with a soil conditioner, add water granules and soil wetters and mulch as usual, to retain the moisture in the root system. Take care not overwater in early spring, as this may cause the leaves to appear first, which ruins the spectacular effect of masses of flowers appearing on bare branches. Jacarandas need moderate watering during the summer months. Pruning is not necessary unless grown in a pot or indoors. In this case, prune in late winter and repot at the same time. Propagation from seed in late winter or early spring, and from half hardened cuttings taken in summer. If taking cuttings, keep them shaded until they are well rooted. And then be patient, trees may take up to 5 years or more to flower! Strangely enough, although very frost sensitive when young, once established Jacarandas are actually frost hardy.