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Grafton Jacaranda Festival
A river town in New South Wales celebrates its purple avenues with a festival first held in 1935.
What happens
Grafton, on the Clarence River in northern New South Wales, planted its streets with jacarandas from the late nineteenth century, and many avenues now meet overhead. The town has held a Jacaranda Festival since 1935. It runs from the last weekend of October to the first weekend of November, when the trees are in full flower. A Jacaranda Queen is crowned, there is a float parade, and on Jacaranda Thursday shop staff work in fancy dress. The 2026 festival runs from 30 October to 8 November.
Also part of it, and being written: Jacaranda mimosifolia (Hundreds of old trees line the streets and the riverbank.), Jacaranda (The genus comes from South and Central America.).
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