Whenever Pretoria-based Karabo Makwetla steps out between September and January, he is met with an explosion of purple, courtesy of Jacaranda trees in full bloom. A radio jockey for North West ...

Jacaranda trees S. Africa enters blooming season 0 Comment(s) Print E-mail Xinhua, October 20, 2014 A woman takes pictures of Jacaranda trees in Pretoria, South Africa, on Oct. 15, 2014.

In September each year, South Africa’s Gauteng province turns purple. The cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria are well covered with trees – and jacarandas (Jacaranda mimosifolia), with their ...

Queen Maxima and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands arrived in Pretoria today for their first state visit of South Africa. Maxima, 52, stunned in a colourblock dress by Zeus + Dione.

South American native tree Jacaranda now thrives in Redlands ... Pretoria, South Africa, imported more than 70,000 of these trees from South America. Today, Pretoria is known as the Jacaranda City.

The jacaranda trees were not native to South Africa but were originally indigenous to South America. Their long-standing history in South Africa can be traced back to as early as 1880 when they ...

Nowhere is that more obvious than in South Africa's capital city, Pretoria, also known as the "Jacaranda City." Thousands of jacaranda trees, far from their native Brazil, turn this city a ...

Pretoria is widely known as Jacaranda City due to its vast number of trees, which turn the landscape blue and purple when they flower in Spring. The blossom trees, hailing from Brazil , also bloom ...

Richfield, a composer, was born in London in 1882 and came to South Africa in 1920. He settled in Pretoria in 1928, where he died on 12 Apr 1967.