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Fall Color - Liquidambar - 1 Originally uploaded by dewelchFound along my walk yesterday, this Liquidambar styraciflua was bursting into color. This is one of the few trees that give us any sense of Fall here in southern California. They are planted...

Robin's Nesting Place is one of the many gardening blogs I follow. It is filled with some tremendous photography, like the post below. Like many blogs, Robin's Nesting Place is highlighting the changes that Winter brings to the garden. I love hearing...

Found at Blogging.la... LADWP offers FREE Landscape classes: "LADWP is offering its customers free landscape classes focused on using ideal vegetation for our climate. The California Friendly Landscape Workshop will show you how to choose the right...

These pictures are a good reminder that if you don't prune the dead wood out of your trees, a good wind is liable to do it for you. We had a strong, cold Santa Ana Wind this week and any tree that had a bit of deadwood, or weak limbs, quickly...