
We can also plant them in pairs to flank gateways and driveway entries in style. We like to plant them in front yards, where they are sure to attract all the right attention. This remarkable tree also features exceptional dark purple foliage that helps to make it an ideal small, color accent tree. This deciduous tree produces a profusion of showy light pink flowers in spring. Purple Leaf Plum (Prunus cerasifera 'Krauter Vesuvius') These are also water-wise trees that thrive in warm, bright, arid environments. We like to plant them in a sunny patio, front entryway, and in any spot where we can enjoy the fragrant spring blossoms. Some say that the flowers smell like a favorite grape drink, oh yea! They are small showy trees, and they can fit in a yard with limited space. We love the display of fragrant violet-blue flowers that bloom in spring. Texas Mountain Laurel (Sophora secundiflora) This is an excellent choice for a beautiful garden or for use as a patio tree. This beautiful deciduous is typically grown as a multi-trunk tree, with turning, twisting trunks giving it a unique statuesque appearance under the bright flowering canopy. This fast growing small-to-medium sized tree will enhance any landscape with beauty and is sure to attract hummingbirds and swarms of butterflies. The Vitex, also known as the Chaste Tree, offers a gorgeous display of handsome gray-green foliage and terminal clusters of fragrant lilac blooms. They are also front-yard flowering trees that can add instant curb appeal. These are stunning specimen trees, whether we plant them in a water-wise yard or urban garden. We like to plant them near patios, courtyards, and decks. These are fast-growing trees that can provide filtered shade. These colorful trees have outstanding features – exotic, trumpet-shaped purple blooms and soft-feathery, fern-like foliage. This is one of our best-selling flowering trees. We only grow the best varieties for our area, so be sure to visit your nearest location and select the best variety for your area. These ornamental trees offer extraordinarily long and reliable bloom cycles so we can enjoy the show from spring through fall! In fact, the show lasts all year thanks to their interesting, colored, mottled trunk bark. In fact, when the hot weather arrives, expect your yard to be decorated in beautiful shades of color.

They are incredibly colorful when in bloom! These beauties love the heat. These versatile trees are also one of the best flowering trees in our area. Spring is the best time to plant, so visit your nearest Moon Valley Nurseries location and allow our nursery pros to help you select the perfect colorful trees for your yard!īest Purple Flowering Trees to Add to Your Yard Here are some of the five best purple flowering trees we can grow in our area. We love seeing the purple blossoms as we drive through neighborhoods and as a bonus, these are also excellent shade trees. Trees such as the Jacaranda are a favorite at many of our nurseries. There is no doubt about it, flowering trees in shades of purple, violet, and lavender are an attractive addition to our landscape. We can still enjoy all the benefits of these flowering trees even if we have a lack of square footage. Of particular note, Stiles produced this heatmap of jacaranda trees in the city of Los Angeles.We can enjoy the beautiful sight of purple flowering trees on any size landscape! It is true. Times journalist Matt Stiles combed through open-data portals and filed public records requests to create a GitHub repository that contains info (including location and species) on 1.75 million trees in 50 L.A.-area cities. cities, it’s unfortunately not quite as easy. Simply plug “jacaranda” into the search field and you’ll see the locations for 1,031 jacaranda trees along streets and parks in the coastal city, including 20th Street north of Colorado Avenue on 11th, 12th and 31st Streets just south of the 10 and, most notably, at the eastern end of Ashland Avenue.Īs for the rest of the non-L.A. If you’re looking for trees outside of the City of Los Angeles, we’ll start with easily the slickest option of them all: the color-coded Santa Monica Public Tree Map. If you’re interested in trees that reside in city parks, just type “jacaranda” into the search bar of this other map. The two caveats: This only shows trees within the City of Los Angeles (so not Beverly Hills or West Hollywood, for instance) and only ones along the street, on public land. The Bureau of Street Services has created a map of every tree along the streets of the City of Los Angeles. The sheer volume of data makes that map borderline unusable, but we were able to create a modified version that shows only jacarandas (thousands upon thousands of them) that we’ve embedded above.

(Just a heads up: This map may load slowly.)
