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 ...
Hosted on MSN10mon
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 ...