Two botanical luminaries – Carl Linnaeus and David Fairchild – never met, but both were stunned by the beauty of palms, considering them the best the plant kingdom had to offer. Linnaeus (1707-1778) ...

The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree species ...

Near the corner of First and Hill streets is a palm tree sitting all by its lonesome in a pot. Sunshine is a scraggly 50-footer not unlike the region’s other queen palms. But to its biggest champions, ...