Hosted on MSN1mon
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 ...
LA Times on MSN8dOpinion
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 ...
Post-Bulletin3d
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 ...
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 ...
U.S. News & World Report14d
18 Best Things to Do in Palm Springs, CA
The city of Palm Springs rests in the shadows of the San Jacinto Mountains. The towering, snowcapped peaks of Southern California's second-highest mountain range are beautiful to behold from the ...