The Flower Language of Jacaranda

Flower Language

(1) It represents tranquility, depth, and melancholy.

(2) Waiting for love in despair.

(3) Deep, cool, quiet, and open.

(4) Cold, lifeless, steady, profound, and elegant.

(5) Waiting for love in despair is an honor even if it fails.

The Culture of Jacaranda

South Africa

Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, is known as the "Jacaranda City" (English: Jacaranda City, Afrikaans: Jakarandastad) because every spring, the numerous jacaranda trees in the city bloom and turn the entire city blue. The title "Jacaranda City" often appears in Afrikaans songs.

Australia

In Australia there is a Christmas song about jacarandas, Christmas where gum trees grow. Because the summer when the Jacaranda trees bloom is Christmas in Australia - just like the song goes, "when the bloom of the Jacaranda tree is here, Christmas time is near..." Grafton, Australia holds the Jacaranda Festival from the second-to-last weekend of October to the first weekend of November every year.

Argentina

In Argentina, author Alejandro Dolina recounts a legend about a giant jacarandá tree in his book Crónicas del Ángel Gris (Chronicles of the Gray Angel). Located in Plaza Flores (Flores Square) in Buenos Aires, the tree can play tango music on request. Writer and musician María Elena Walsh dedicated one of her songs, "Canción del Jacarandá," to the tree.

U.K.

British singer Steve Tilson celebrated this beautiful tree in his song "Jacaranda" which he encountered in Australia. (This song is the 11th track from his album Ziggurat released in 2008).