A House with a Jacaranda Tree🏡

Neera Handa Dr
Reciprocal
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6 min readDec 8, 2022

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Jacaranda in the street image credit Author

Sydney at the moment is blazing with purple fire, yes, the jacaranda tree is in full bloom!

jacaranda mimosifolia — the blue jacaranda.

Purple has been my favourite colour, for ever, any way!

So naturally, this beautiful purple flowering tree, which casts its 🍃 green leaves in Spring, in Australia, by the end of October, and blossoms in early November, sprouting into colour 💜 overnight! would be a favourite too!

I can never forget my first jacaranda tree in Australia, when I saw this magnificent tree growing at the back of the rented apartment where we had moved right after arriving in Australia. Not knowing what this big green tree was, till overnight it burst into colour purple, and I fell in love, with it!

And since then, I had wanted a house with this beautiful, magnificent tree.

I remember, years ago, one evening when I got back to my car from the city, it was covered in purple colour. Those were the pre mobile days, and I didn’t have a camera handy, so, to capture its beauty, not having any other means, I just scooped up a few handfuls of these purple blossoms and put them in my car, some I hid in my shirt, and some in my scarf.

I went home and stood in the middle of our sitting room and showered the petals on the floor, my…

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Neera Handa Dr
Reciprocal

Top writer in poetry & Sustainability, compulsive writer, reading, writing just about anything. I love to tell stories!