Trees in description and in art

A song, covered (but not written) by Ella Fitzgerald.

Hey, it's the use of common names that can camfladulate me, not the latin.

I don't see the song link, but That's It - what I'd like to see - songs and poetry and art and bits of science about trees.

You never had to learn them professionally. Whilst I was studying Horticulture back when, there was a major change to the nomenclature! Fabaceae was redefined into three new sub-families; Faboideae, Caesalpinioideae & Mimosoideae. Crap! Australia is also 'blessed' with over 600 named species of Acacia! The horror, the horror....

Yes, I did - I'm a landscape architect...
but we learned our plants with an eye to what we would be using in designed landscapes, so we didn't have to memorize every possible tree, shrub, etc.

OK, you win!! Christ, these wimmen play hardball on A2K.......

Osso - this is truely my favourite time of the year. All over Sydney they are flowering..... they?







When my first daughter was born, I went out the back of the hospital... these trees seemed to be everywhere...

Oh, god, I miss jacs. We had a lot of them around Los Angeles.. One of my all time favorites. They don't make it in New Mexico. They, uh, we, have Vitex agnus-castus, but NOT the same.

My daughter is still convinced that the jacaranda in their backyard flowers just especially for her birthday.

They are so ubiquitious in Australia that most Aussies think that they are a native! One town, Grafton, has had a regular festival every year since 1935!



The winner of the annual 2007 Jacaranda Queen Crown: