When winter cold doesn’t kill the semi-tender flower buds – as was the case this year – the tree is nearly covered in clusters of tubular purple flowers that look a bit like foxglove flowers.

Jacarandas have burst forth once more with their galvanizing purple-blue flowers, an invitation to feel joy or annoyance, depending on one’s perspective toward the tree’s spectacular yet messy ...

The purple emperor is often found in southern England but conservationists hope it will head north. The first trees were planted at the Rosliston Forestry Centre, near Swadlincote, on Thursday.

The jacarandas sprung purple flowers all over last year in Balboa Park, but this year, those same trees are far more sparse. “They just haven’t been as like, ‘Wow, they’re so purple!’ ...