A few times each autumn, Elizabeth Schwartz gathers the fallen foliage from her neighbor’s Western sycamore in West L.A. and remembers its seasonal gifts: the joy of stomping on huge palmate leaves, ...
Fall is an excellent time to plant trees and shrubs. The soil is still warm, so roots will have time to establish themselves long before the punishing heat of next summer arrives. If you are thinking ...
Q: Last winter, the stream at the back of our property was roaring and flooding over its banks. A number of the trees along our bank fell and had to be removed immediately. The stumps are still down ...
A community group plans to plant about 100 trees in Lennox on Saturday, although roughly half of the trees are not on Los Angeles County's approved planting list. The trees are California sycamores ...
Q. Our sycamore tree always looks fine in spring, but many of the leaves become disfigured, turn brown and fall prematurely by summer. Other sycamore trees in our neighborhood do the same thing, too.
Q: I wonder if you could give me advice on which kind of sycamore — the California or the London plane — I should plant? A number of years ago, we lost a big old mulberry that was kind of on its side ...
The Platanaceae are an early derived eudicot lineage and therefore occupy a key position for understanding reproductive character diversification associated with the early evolutionary radiation of ...