Spring is the most awaited season of the year. We look forward to the end of the winter slumber and are ready to welcome the new season with open arms. The beginning of spring is marked and celebrated over the world by many cultures in various ways.
In India, the Holi festival or festival of love is celebrated by people dancing in clouds of color. Thailand celebrates spring with a giant water fight where Buddhist monks, tourists, and everyone willing to unleash their inner child is welcome to participate. Here in Mexico, we celebrate the spring equinox by dressing in white and visiting the pyramids in various states.
Colorful Puerto Vallarta
The flora diversity when visiting Puerto Vallarta in spring will amaze you, an explosion of color everywhere. We are blessed by abundant vegetation here at Banderas Bay.
In springtime, you can delight in nature at its best, flowers blooming; the first rains fill the riverbanks of the Cuale River that runs through El Caloso and Old Town, and small fruits in trees waiting to ripen. It certainly feels like an enchanted land, and it’s here for your enjoyment. Puerto Vallarta possesses a wide variety of trees and plants, such as:
Jacaranda Tree
The majestic purple flower jacaranda tree, now considered a native Mexican tree, was a gift by the Japanese imperial gardener Tatsugoro Matsumoto. Mr. Matsumoto was a landscape architect that arrived in Mexico in 1896 by the disposition of the Japanese emperor.
He was the first Japanese immigrant that came to Mexico. And because of his outstanding landscaping work, he was commissioned to design the forest and gardens around the Chapultepec castle. Later, in 1920 the then-president Alvaro Obregon requested Mr. Matsumoto to plant Jacaranda trees in the main avenues of Mexico City. The Jacaranda tree was brought from Brazil and rapidly spread through the city and other parts of the country like Puerto Vallarta. You can enjoy their extravagant flowers blooming in spring.
Primavera Tree
The primavera tree is an early spring bloomer, therefore its name. Native to South America, it can grow up to 100 feet in the rainforest. The pink and yellow primavera tree flowers grow in clusters of one to three inches, which attract bees, hummingbirds, and bats. They make an ideal tree for tropical gardens because they have no insect pests. Here in Vallarta, we can marvel at their beauty present everywhere in springtime. From the streets in the Romantic Zone to the neighborhoods of Versalles and the Marina. The primavera tree greet us with its welcoming message that spring is finally here.
An Impressive and Delicious Flora
The port of Vallarta is home to 14 different types of palm trees, including the coconut palm, which has culinary, cosmetic, and construction applications, and let’s not forgets the delicious and refreshing coconut water to quench your thirst in those hot summer days. If you are in the Romantic Zone, try this little spot Called Cocos Fescos Don Ramon at Aquiles Serdan corner with Ignacio L.Vallarta, coconuts are always sweet and chill.
In spring, Puerto Vallarta is cover by lively violet, orange, red, white, and yellow Buganvilias. This can grow technically everywhere. You can find them hanging over walls, fences, and in pots.
If you wonder about that bitter-sweet beverage that Mexicans drink a lot called Agua de Jamaica. Well, it is made out of dried hibiscus flowers. They are a standard part of the Vallarta landscape. The trumpet-like hibiscus has up to five large petals and comes in all shades of red, purple, white, orange, or purple.
While walking around Puerto Vallarta in springtime, you can encounter trees bearing delicious fruits like bananas, avocado, starfruit, guanabana, and mangoes. Be careful not to get hit by a falling mango when passing by. It has happened before.
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