Los Angeles is a youthful, antsy, many-hued city of makers and doers, power brokers and paradigm shifters, and where great big ideas bloom like Jacaranda flowers in spring.

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Come mid-April, spring is in full bloom in Augusta, so you can expect temps to hover around the high 70s or low 80s, though mornings and evenings are a bit chillier with lows in the 50s.

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Whether you visit in the winter for Christmas markets glittering under snowflakes, or in the spring when the flowers in the city's many parks are in bloom, the city is sure to charm.

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The flowers bloom in dramatic fashion, their light pink colour spreading across previously barren treetops to welcome spring.

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