A: Golden-rain trees are considered short-lived, but it’s not unusual to find specimens approaching 50 years old. They are durable trees, but recent years of drought and heat stress have caused ...

Jacaranda trees canopy a Santa Ana street in early June 2013. As June approaches this year, jacaranda fans await their flamboyant bloom. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times) ...

On Monday morning, a small but determined group planted themselves in front of 25-foot-tall jacaranda trees, as feet away, as the sound of bulldozers kicked off the new Lakeside Library project.