For example, Salix integra 'Pendula' is one dwarf variety that is highly rated ... In very dry areas, eucalyptus trees can be a fire hazard, as their foliage and bark are notoriously flammable.

Perhaps the fires that devastated Los Angeles in early January will take such platitudes out of circulation, at least for a ...

Dwarf hinoki cypress is an evergreen tree that maintains its deep green color all year long. Its uniquely textured foliage takes on a fanlike shape and the branches grow in a dense pattern with ...

Several proud men standing by giant eucalyptus trees on East Lake Avenue in Watsonville, circa 1913. Eucalyptus trees were ...

But climate change bringing hotter, drier conditions means the trees – especially plantations of Eucalyptus globulus or Tasmanian blue gum grown for paper – are contributing to bushfires from ...

If it had reached the UCSD campus with all its groves of very flammable eucalyptus trees, there would have been a conflagration. There was talk a couple of years ago about UCSD cutting down the ...

What would an overhaul of the environment look like? Fragrant eucalyptus trees, indigenous to Australia, sway in the breeze along roadways and in groves. Stately palm trees, lining neighborhoods ...

Eucalyptus trees – native to Australia – were seen as an easy solution to a critical shortage of wood brought on by the economic boom. Opportunistic Aussies “imported and planted them in ...