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[easilyirritable]

Sometimes I think I would be the happiest girl in the world if I had a yard full of southern magnolia, jacaranda and live oak trees draped in Spanish moss. I would just sit under them and let the petals fall onto my head, and I would never wash them out of my hair.

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[heartofkudzu]

i'm with you, except for the spanish moss. lovely to look at, but full of redbugs! ew!

also, i can't ever see "jacaranda" without immediately thinking of francesca lia block books. did you ever read those?

[easilyirritable]

Yeah, I love spanish moss, but those redbugs have got to go! (Really, I just tell myself that spanish moss is home for lots of little animals and bugs, and it makes me feel a little less icked out by the bugs.)

I think I did read that story - isn't it a part of Girl Goddess #9? I saw my first jacaranda tree a few years after I had read that story, and once I did I totally understood why she used them so prominently in her imagery. Those trees are GORGEOUS. In fact, if I ever have a kid I might name her Jacaranda. I love them that much. (And then my kid would hate me, like I'm sure all of those kids of 70s hippies whose parents named them Rainbow and Moonbeam only to have them change their name in adulthood to something like Bob and Jane hate them. But whatever!)

[heartofkudzu]

jacaranda could be an awesome middle name, though! i've never actually seen a jacaranda tree in person, though--now i really want to! :)

i really want a house with a fence/wall covered in night-blooming jasmine. i dated a girl whose house was like that, and waking up with the smell of jasmine drifting through the window was beautiful.

[easilyirritable]

Pinellas County is saturated with jacaranda. If you come through here during the spring you will see them everywhere.

Night blooming jasmine, is that like confederate jasmine? I only ask because the stairway leading to the upstairs apartments in our complex is covered with confederate jasmine, and the scent is heavenly. You walk outside of our apartment, and bam! you just get nailed by the scent of jasmine. So thanks for reminding me that I want jasmine, too. :)

[jourdannex]

Oh how I need a Jacaranda. So very much. And a pink flowering tree as well.

I love trees so much. And those massive oaks...so gorgeous.

[easilyirritable]

Oak trees are by far my favorite, although I am passionate about flowering trees, too. There is just something so reassuring and safe about a big oak tree. I love em.

[christophrawr]

i seriously need some colorful trees in my philosophy.
thanks for these. *dives for shade*

[joanofarq]

Ah-CHOOO.

Thanks for the photos because if I get up close to any of those things my hay fever kicks in . . . pretty, though. . .

[starskin]

I love jacaranda. They were everywhere when I was growing up and I used to love running through all the fallen petals. That's one of the things I miss about living in St. Pete...we don't have them up here! That, and we don't have Banyan trees, either.