Morning walks in a gated community can be boring once you have passed through all the streets and memorized the street names.

Ensure that you have inline drip irrigation installed in beds to help counter dry conditions, and get back to watering fruit trees ...

I wrote in this space about a flowering shrub called pineapple guava, a plant that produces fruit that resemble neither pineapples nor guavas. Today I think I’ll talk to you about banana trees ...

However, eating and using guava is delightfully simple, making it easy to enjoy its pineapple-strawberry flavor ... grows on ...

Thick, humid air envelopes Myriam Claude's banana tree, which bears a beautiful cluster of fruit, not yet ripe.

Oak trees provide a prime ecological benefit ... wild strawberry and non-native pineapple guava. Plus, spring vegetable plants like tomatoes, peppers, etc. When you are planting your new shrubs ...

Beside it are several trees blossoming with flowers ... Myriam Claude, meanwhile, is experimenting with other fruits — pineapple, passion fruit, guava, kumquat, figs and mango.

It featured 360-degree views of the mountains to the north, Downtown Los Angeles to the south, and an abundant garden where Charles Bryant planted 80 trees, including pineapple, guava, pear, lemon, ...