Column: Slow the spread of fire? ‘We have to get rid of the palm trees’
Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading flames, but fire-resistant landscaping helps. It ...
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California has a palm tree problem
California has just one native palm, the California fan palm, which fill oases in the Coachella Valley and Joshua Tree regions. Nevertheless, the picture on the postcard worked perfectly ...
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Minnesotans take a short visit to Palm Springs
On Thursday evenings, Palm Springs closes off Palm Canyon Drive, the main street, for a street fair — arts, crafts, food, and ...
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Palm trees define the SoCal landscape, but it wasn’t always that way
Palms like the Mexican fan and the Canary Island date, which are the ones most often used to line streets, were all imported. Southern California’s native landscape is mostly coastal sage scrub ...