#JacarandasEverywhere will unlock a VIP concert experience for one lucky winner at Mzansi.
Jacaranda FM is celebrating “More Music you Love” by paying homage to canopies of purple flowers in its #JacarandasEverywhere campaign this month.
By showing the resort the beautiful jacaranda flowers blooming everywhere, listeners could win a concert experience with tickets to One Republic, Sting or Imagine Dragons, including chauffeured VIP service, a special wine and dinner experience before the show. show, as well as accommodation on the evening of the concert worth R50,000.
“Jacaranda trees bloom from late September through November, draping our cityscapes and cityscapes in gorgeous shades of purple. This annual burst of purple celebrates our passion for bringing the best music, entertainment, news and experiences to Mzansi families – and so we created an interactive campaign that celebrated #JacarandasEverywhere,” shares Deirdre King, Managing Director by Jacaranda FM.
To enter, simply photograph yourself against a sea of #JacarandasEverywhere, upload the image to your social media platform of choice, and tag with #JacarandasEverywhere to be one of the lucky winners to walk away with the grand prize. worth R50,000. The finalist will be highlighted on air throughout the week, and one-time prizes will also be up for grabs. Be sure to tune in to Breakfast with Martin Bester on Friday, October 7 between 6 and 9 a.m. for the announcement of the winners.
“From the purple trails in Arcadia, Pretoria to the scenic vistas of Munro Drive in Houghton and Melville where purple jacaranda blossoms take over pink bougainvillea on 4th Avenue, there are places all over Mzansi for our community to enjoy. enjoy and take a photo to get in,” adds King.
10 interesting facts about jacarandas and the color purple
- The jacaranda represents wisdom, rebirth, wealth and luck. In fact, local legend has it that the jacaranda is associated with the Amazonian moon goddess who is known for her wisdom, and when a jacaranda flower falls on a student’s head, it’s considered good luck.
- While Pretoria may be known as Jacaranda City with over 70,000 trees lining its streets, Johannesburg is actually home to the most jacaranda trees.
- You can eat the flower, it’s not poisonous, but it doesn’t taste good either.
- Purple is associated with creativity, royalty and wealth.
- The color purple became associated with wealth and royalty because the wealthy were the only ones who could afford clothes and items dyed purple.
- Within the LGBTQI+ community, the purple in the pride flag represents non-binary gender identifiers
- Visually, purple is one of the most difficult colors to discriminate. It also has the strongest electromagnetic wavelength, just a few wavelengths from X-rays or gamma rays. This is why purple is often chosen for visual illusions like the lilac hunter illusion.
- In writing, the phrase “purple prose” is often used to describe an extremely imaginative idea.
- We are not allowed to replace a jacaranda tree when it dies – it is an invasive species, so we have the most purple flowers across the country that we will ever see right now.
- Mzansi really cares about his jacaranda trees. So much so that the jacaranda was once one of the best April Fool’s Day jokes. In 2001, Carte Blanche reported that the government had decided to remove all water-hungry aliens. The public was angry, and even though it turned out to be just an April Fool’s joke, records were set that South Africans are unwilling to part with their beloved jacaranda trees.
Registration is now open and the winners will be announced on Friday morning October 7th. For more details, visit www.jacarandafm.com.