More than 50 years ago, a liquid amber spike ball found its way onto a Seaside neighborhood parkway in Torrance. The hard, round, thorny container released its seeds there on the corner of Daille and ...

A small killer no bigger than an ant is on the loose in Long Beach. And there’s not much that can be done about it. I found this out personally last week when our gorgeous, 30-foot tall liquid amber ...

GARDENING GERRY DALY WHILE a wide range of trees look good in their autumn finery, there is a group of less well-known trees that are truly exceptional. Among these are sweet gum, tulip tree, katsura ...

REDLANDS – The Street Tree Committee voted to remove several diseased and dead liquid amber trees on Marilyn Lane Thursday. “This is not something we want to do, but we have to take this action in ...

HILLSIDE DISTRICT ? Though the sky may not actually be falling onto Mansfield Drive, residents in the neighborhood have heard their share of loud crashes over the past two weeks. Two limbs from the ...

The liquidambar trees along La Crescenta’s Caracas Street cul-de-sac are getting a reprieve from what residents there say was a biennial butchering. Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, ...

SANTA CRUZ — The city plans to remove four heritage trees and three others outside the Central Library that have caused an estimated $20,000 in sidewalk and curb damage during the past decade. Leslie ...