Purple flowers Tree California (Jacaranda Tree) In 2006 Kate Sessions was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame from the Women’s Museum of California. #walk #balboapark #sandiego #springishere #tobi #park #friend #katesessionsĪ post shared by Zoe & Tobi on at 4:26pm PDTĮntering the Hall of Fame – Kate Sessions Sessions never married and live to the amazing age of 82, when she passed in San Diego on March 24, 1940. If you are around San e if you can find it. There a bronze statue at Balboa Park of sessions. That property was eventually renamed as what we know today as Balboa Park! She agreed to fix the situation by planting 100 new trees per year in the park and 300 additional trees per year elsewhere on public lands around the city of San Diego. At one point she became the most sought after landscape designer of her time.ġ892, this was the year that Sessions would change California’s landscape forever! She leased out 32 acres of land owned by the city of San Diego (was known as City Park at the time). She started to bring seeds and plants from Europe, Mexico, and South America. Sessions was always fascinated with all the different plants growing in all the exotic parts of the world. She attended University of California, Berkley with a degree in natural science. Fun fact, she’s also known as the “Mother of Balboa Park“! Sessions was educated in Oakland but moved with her family to Lake Merritt when she was just six. Sessions was born in San Francisco in 1857. We owe these beautiful purple flowers tree to one amazing woman named Kate Sessions. Keep reading I’ll tell you how one woman changed the way LA looks with these Jacaranda Trees! History of Those Beautiful Jacaranda Trees in Bloom Around L.A.Īre you wondering where all these trees with beautiful purple flowers came from in LA?
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