![]() ROSEBANK Take a stroll along Tyrwhitt Avenue or Jellicoe Avenue in Rosebank on either side of Oxford Road in the shade of the blooming Jacarandas. PARKWOOD In the suburbs of Parkwood and neighbouring Saxonwold take a drive (or a walk) along Bath Avenue and make a left (or a right) on any of these gorgeous purple canopied streets: Bristol, Wantage, Griswold or Rutland Roads. From the James and Ethel Gray Park (entrance at Edgewood Avenue) there is a great view of the downtown skyline fringed by the Observatory Ridge. MELROSE The suburb of Melrose, next to Rosebank, has some beautiful quiet Jacaranda-lined streets that make for a great photo opportunity such as Jameson, Reform and Victoria Avenues. Joburg's best jacaranda streets DUNKELD Kent and Hume Roads in Dunkeld both run perpendicular to Oxford Road and Jan Smuts Avenue (east to west, and vice versa), making this the place to capture Jacaranda blooms at sunset or sunrise. Booking is essential as space is limited! Check out our programme of #jacarandainyourpocket events here and book your spot. Photo by Mark Straw Jacaranda photo walks and toursĪs part of our 2022 #jacarandainyourpocket photo competition, we are running six unique jacaranda-themed walks, tours and experiences in collaboration with local tour guides, photographers and city venues including Radisson Red, voco Hotel and The Tyrwhitt. Note you must be following our account be eligible to win. To enter you must share your photos on Instagram taken in Joburg or Pretoria during the 2022 jacaranda season. Students joke that if you haven’t started revising for the end of year university exams before the jacarandas start to bloom, then you’ve probably left it too late.Įvery year we celebrate Gauteng's jacaranda spring with our #jacarandainyourpocket photo competition hosted on Instagram. The 2022 competition is open for entries from Oct 13 to Nov 14.Īll you need to do to enter is share your best photos with us on Insta tagged: #jacarandainyourpocket2022 #YourJourneyStartswithGautrain The blooming jacarandas have found their way into local mythology. Jacarandas are now officially recognised in South Africa as an alien species which means no more jacaranda trees are allowed to be planted. To see the spectacular spring blossoms, you need to head to the older suburbs. It quickly became so popular that the trees were planted along almost every new street built in the rapidly growing cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria. The jacaranda is not a native African tree (it originated in South America) and is believed to have first arrived in Gauteng in 1888 (during the Gold Rush). Hint: I’m not listing the addresses above (just the neighborhoods), but you can use the same procedure to hunt a few photo-worthy Jacaranda-lined streets, too.Each Spring, usually from early October to early November, a sea of purple petals from thousands of jacaranda trees blooms above Gauteng's suburban streets. Using that map as a starting point, I located some of the most densely packed streets and looked up the addresses on Google Maps to see what the composition might look like in real life. Time Out L.A.’s Michael Juliano created this map with data from L.A.’s Bureau of Street Services, which has an online map of every tree on L.A. And if you’re not able to just step outside your door and see these purple delights on your morning walk, then here’s a tip: Photo by Christina Champlin Finding a Jacaranda BloomĬhances are you probably live closer to a jacaranda bloom than you think. Photo by Christian Champlin Jacaranda bloom in Crenshaw. Photo by Christina Champlin Jacaranda bloom in La Cienega Heights. ![]() Photo by Christina Champlin Jacaranda bloom in Westwood. Photo by Christina Champlin Jacaranda in bloom in Los Feliz. Check out the following photos and be sure to scroll down below the gallery to see some instructions on how you, too, can locate clusters of these blossoming beauties. Over Memorial Day weekend, I drove around the city to snap some shots of what this year’s bloom looks like in a variety of neighborhoods. ![]()
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