Having gone to see the cherry blossoms in Japan this year, I was wondering why we don't celebrate the jacarandas even half as much. Grafton and a heap of other

Having gone to see the cherry blossoms in Japan this year, I was wondering why we don't celebrate the jacarandas even half as much. Grafton and a heap of other small towns all have jacaranda festivals and we're obviously really bad at promoting them. The Brisbane Council classifying jacarandas as invasive weeds probably doesn't help either.