Tree advocates in Beverly Hills, Calif., have won a reprieve for dozens of Indian laurel figs that were slated to be razed by the city after arguing in court, in part, that the mature trees provided ...

Sometimes plants are stranger than fiction. The following was posted Tuesday night on an Echo-Elysisan neighborhood list serv by Michael O'Brien, a city planner and neighborhood presence who keeps ...

Tree advocates in Beverly Hills have won a reprieve for dozens of Indian laurel figs that were slated to be razed by the city after arguing in court, in part, that the mature trees provided critical ...

Tens of thousands of mature street trees in Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speeds and threatens to destroy the urban forest in older cities ...

It's hard to believe that such a delightfully robust and luxuriant tree like the Indian laurel, Ficus microcarpa nitida, can be so problematic. It looks so perfect, with lustrous evergreen foliage, ...