Dear Mexican: I live in La Habra, and I’ve noticed that the local Mexicans have a real affinity for palm trees — the more, the better. Some houses have more than fifty planted in a 10’x20′ front yard, ...

Enough with the palm trees already! Joan Bockman is known to many locals as Oceanside’s unofficial Johnny Appleseed for native plants. She celebrates and encourages homeowners who introduce cottonwood ...

In most cities, buildings make the skyline. Paris has a tower, London a clock, New York an island-long roof-scape. Only Los Angeles signed the sky with trees. Tens of thousands of palms tower over the ...

Neighbors of Pellier Park in downtown San Jose — finally under construction after a long delay — are feeling misled after the city cut down two Mexican fan palm trees on the site, foliage they thought ...

I have settled in at my new office at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve. You can reach me at 822-7754, and I will assist you with your gardening and water conservation concerns. Here are some questions ...

PASADENA – Mexican palms, out. King and date palms, in. That’s the recommendation of the city’s Urban Forestry Advisory Committee, which voted this week in favor of the king palm tree and the date ...

The other evening while out on one of my regular neighborhood strolls I encountered something that left me both startled and befuddled. Palm trees. (Which aren’t really trees in the scientific sense, ...

Palm trees are on the rise in San Francisco. From gritty Sixth Street to up-and-coming Octavia Boulevard, the city has embarked on what amounts to a campaign, planting hundreds of the towering symbols ...

Nobody seems to know when, exactly, a stretch of towering Mexican fan palms were planted along one of San Diego's most iconic streets in one of its most iconic neighborhoods, but most would agree that ...