Call me heretical, but sometimes I feel that way about L.A.’s palm trees. The difference is that there is almost nowhere that you won’t see a palm tree, including right out my back door.

Palm trees along West Cliff Drive are silhouetted during a recent sunset as seen from Main Beach. West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz didn’t have a specific name until “Cliff Drive” emerged in ...

Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees. Currently, 181 genera with around 2,600 species are known, most of which are restricted to tropical and subtropical climates. Comparison ...

But buying and installing palm trees can be a splurge — around $600 per tree — and some don’t last long. “Definitely, I would say I see between one and two out of every 10 [palm trees ...