Brasilia´s flowerboom: the ipês season

Brasilia´s flowerboom: the ipês season

Winter in Brasilia - if we can admit there´s any winter in Brasilia - brings the starting of the Ipês´ spectacle.

These big trees start to flourish in the middle of the dry season, and july is the month of the rose ones. 

Some claim the stress caused by the dryness is the responsible for this dramatic reproduction effort of the trees. 

From july to october the big trees of Brasilia bring their different colours alongside the months: in july, the rose ipês; in august, the purple ones; in september, the majestic yellows. In october, the flamboyants wellcome the rain with their heavy canopy fullfiled with red flowers.  

They loose all their leaves, and gain colourful flowers enbelleshing the city. 

There are so many Ipês in Brasilia that we can wonder if the city was made for them, or if the Ipês were made for Brasilia. Surely, the landscaper Burle Marx, who helped Niemayer and Lucio Costa on the task of planning the city, had a great insight when thinking of the Ipês to prettify the city. 

In fact, his gardens are remarkable, though people often look more to Brasilia´s architecture than to its green areas, which deserve the same admiration. The Ipês flowerboom remember us of paying more respect to this perfect combination of nature and landscaping.