There was a beautiful jacaranda tree in Palm Harbor I used to see whenever it took the back roads to go to the Palm Harbor Library where I used to volunteer for about 4 hours a week from the Summer of 2000 through 2004 or so. The Library Director Gene Coppola and I did not see eye-to-eye about a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory from the Palm Harbor Library website, so I quit volunteering in protest.
http://myfloridalegal.com/directory I still got to see the jacaranda tree whenever I went to check out books or when just going to the Publix, Books-A--Million or some other store near the Palm Harbor Library.
Are there any of these beautiful trees here in the Villages? I cannot remember seeing any of these. Check out the pictures of these from a town in Australia--
Jacaranda Festival Grafton - Australia's oldest floral family festival
Another link for jacarandas--
http://treesandshrubs.about.com/od/c.../jacaranda.htm