The Jacarandas are featured along with Camden Cottage, Show Pavilion, Camden Library Museum, Macaria and other historic sites.ĬRET’s films appeared on Facebook in the week leading up to the festival. (What On Macarthur, leaflet, November 2018) (Camden Narellan Advertiser, 8 August 2018)Ĭamden Region Economic Taskforce director Debbie Roberts put together several short films with Camden personality and historian Laura Jane Aulsebrook. Fireworks topped out the festivities on Saturday night. Larkin Place featured a motocross demonstration and a display of ‘fabulous street metal’.
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There was a street market with stalls and outdoor dining along Argyle Street and a stage in John Street for ‘local school children, dance schools and local professional acts’. The Jacaranda Experience opened on Saturday afternoon and into the evening when the Christmas tree was lit followed by fireworks.
The festival ran from 23-25 November and opened on Friday night with live music throughout the town centre, including hotels, shopfronts and the Alan Baker Art Gallery. Mayor Symkowiak said the ‘festival cheer will remain a highlight and nothing has changed ’. The 2018 Jacaranda Festival was the inaugural event under founder and Camden Hotel manager Andrew Valciukas. “A visiting sea captain from South America gave Walter Hill the first jacaranda, which he planted at the rear of the city botanic gardens in 1864.” Camden Jacaranda Festival “On returning, they would unload at Kangaroo Point cliffs’ wharfs and the first curator of the gardens, Walter Hill, would row across the river and exchange seeds and plants with visiting sea captains. “In the 1850s Queensland was sending wheat and grain to South America,” he told ABC Radio Brisbane’s Craig Zonca. ‘the first jacaranda tree planted in Australia was in Brisbane’. Ross McKinnon, a former curator of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, told Jessica Hinchliffe for ABC News, that The Jacaranda specimen was located in the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens.
‘Under The Jacaranda’ was painted by Richard Godfrey Rivers in 1903 at the Queensland Art Gallery. Though rare, as we have remarked, enough has been proved to warrant us in stating that the Jacaranda mimosifolia is perfectly hardy in all but the very coldest districts of New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. The blossoms are large, of a most striking and delightful blue, and produced in such profusion that, viewed from a little distance, the tree appears, as it were, a graceful and living cone of floral grandeur. It may be said of the species that even out of flower it has no equal amongst moderate-sized ornamental trees, while to give expression to the effect of its appearance when in fall bloom no words would suffice.
It is soft, feathery, fern or frond like, and exquisitely elegant, while at the same time it is decidedly grand, both in its proportions, graceful arrangements, and symmetry. Its foliage is, perhaps, the most beautiful of all exogenous trees.
Going back further, the first mention of Jacarandas was from Camden’s Ferguson’s Australian Nurseries in 1876 in Melbourne’s Australasian newspaper.įerguson’s published advice on the ‘rare’ Jacaranda mimosifolia described as ‘a singularly beautiful and rare flowering tree’.įerguson’s described the Jacaranda mimosifolia specimen in the Sydney Botanic Gardens asĪn erect, though umbrageous and handsome growing tree, 30ft. The first mention of jacarandas in Camden Jacarandas were first planted in Camden’s town centre in the 1920s and in recent years have suffered from traffic pollution and other problems. Specimens of Jacaranda mimosifolia with their purple display on the central island in Argyle Street, Camden.
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