![]() We are a nursery of two people doing all the maintenance, propagation, shipping and customer service, working eight days per week. That is because, our nursery typically receives over 1-2 hundred orders a week with orders consisting of 1 to 20+ plants each, which adds up to around 1,000 plants per week to prepare and ship, when we are only able to properly ship around 125 or so orders per week. **About delivery time: During checkout you will notice the shipping time states "once shipped" in days but our "delivery time" is stated in weeks. Due to extended travel time and weather conditions we remove the UPS Ground options to some locations to prevent loss and heat damage. **To better serve you, during certain times of the year, when heat and travel time may become an issue, we offer UPS 2 Day which may be considerably more expensive however safer for your shipment. ![]() ![]() All shipping rates include all shipping and handling fees. We do not guarantee plants due to extreme temperatures during shipping. If you know the temperatures in your area are not conducive to shipping plants enclosed in a box from Florida to your location, please wait until temperatures are more favorable. **Please understand we are unable to constantly monitor the temperatures across the entire United States. Western shipments are not guaranteed in the months of May-September. In these regions you are accepting full responsibility for the shipment and understand the risks involved due to distance and temperatures. Orders placed from the western regions in the US can have an extended delivery time up to 9 days, we strongly recommend selecting 2 day UPS or placing your order in early spring or late fall to avoid hot summer temps. Orders placed from these areas will be refunded and cancelled. We do NOT ship to AK, HI, PR or internationally. One council member, explaining his vote to keep the jacarandas, said: “I’ve walked by jacaranda trees near my house and their beauty is really overpowering.At the current time we only ship to the lower 48 states. Those trees, however, received a reprieve. Their leaves and flowers make a mess on our yards and patios that’s impossible to clean.” “Jacarandas are beautiful,” one resident said. In 2000, residents in Yorba Linda pushed to have the city remove dozens of the trees, saying that the sticky flowers were littering their patios and choking spa filters. “Have you even walked barefoot down a street lined with jacarandas?”Īnother resident told Smith: “After years of putting up with a year-round mess, I am about to put a chain saw to it. “We used to have a jacaranda in our frontyard - we chopped it down.” Maxwell went on the describe the sticky liquid that accompanies the flowers. “I would hazard a guess that you don’t have a jacaranda tree,” one Downey resident, Linda Maxwell, wrote to Smith. Times columnist Jack Smith in 1982 wrote of his love for jacarandas - and got an earful from the trees’ detractors. There was even a case of jacaranda envy years ago, when Costa Mesa residents learned that 11 trees removed from the city had been sold to Los Angeles and were planted as part of the refurbished Central Library in downtown Los Angeles. In 1990, The Times wrote about using jacaranda wood to create perfectly smoked meat. Developers used them to bring color to new housing tracts. Glendale in 1972 declared the jacaranda its official tree. Over the next few years, many cities planted the trees in parkways. and its finely cut fern-like dark green foliage,” L. “The jacaranda has two outstanding features: its unparalleled blue trumpet flowers in clusters. In 1933, the city forester declared the jacaranda the most exotic tree in Los Angeles.
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