8 L.A. trees to love that aren’t jacarandas

Written By Cynthia Hirschhorn

The blooming of jacarandas often signals the start of pre-summer, the most hopeful time of year. Vacation mode nears when their blue-ish purple flowers holler “party!”

B. Ramón Alvarado, sustainability specialist at Community Corporation of Santa Monica, is a jacarandista like me. I met him in the course of asking people a two-part question I recommend you ask too: What are your favorite L.A. trees, and what do you love about them?

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.

Cynthia Hirschhorn
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