Once a Queen

For almost a century the town of Grafton NSW has celebrated the magnificence of its jacaranda trees with an inspired festivalIn the 1880s a German immigrant planted imported Jacaranda tree seeds along the avenues of Grafton in northern NSW In 1935 the treelined avenues were of such splendour that the council of the day decided to hold a festival to celebrate the blossoming of the trees and the arrival of spring This program shows how this festival has become an annual event that includes the crowing of The Jacaranda Queen