My front door is on the west side of the house. If you come to visit me in the afternoon in the summer, you could melt waiting for me to unlock all the doors.
So......... I have planted several trees there to provide shade. First I tried a ficus which was doing well until we had the big freeze. (Hard to imagine a big freeze in AZ but we had one and it killed a lot of trees and plants.)
Then I (well, actually Octavio, my wonderful friend and gardener) tried a flowering plum. But it bit the dust. So now I have a jacaranda tree. Now this is a beautiful tree.
Here is a picture of one:
And here is a picture of the one Octavio planted. I'll keep you posted on how it does. Hopefully it will look like the above picture in a few years and you won't melt at my front door.
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I read once in a Marilyn Monroe biography that Jacaranda trees were her favorite tree. Apparently, they are abundant in So. Cal (at least in Burbank, where she spent her childhood) or used to be and that she though that when the leaves (petals?) fell to the ground that it looked like "lavender snow." [Did Octavio mention how much these trees litter? Just curious! Ha ha.] Anyway, because of this MM factoid, I've always regarded them as "Old Hollywood," the most glamorous of trees. How fabulous that you have one outside your front door!
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