Two century-old trees in front of the La Jolla hotel were removed in February, but their replacements are now installed ...

In the 1800s and 1900s, new Angelenos imported palms from elsewhere in the world. In the 1930s, the city underwent its biggest palm planting boom, with more than 25,000 palms planted in 1931 alone ...

The palms were tall, dramatic, and tropical, swaying gently in LA’s warm breeze – or bending horizontally with the gusty Santa Anas. A century later, it’s hard to imagine LA without these trees. But ...

Can you imagine San Diego without palm trees? I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and have associated palms with Southern California since I visited my cousins in Pasadena during the 1960s.

To the editor: In her Sunday article about Los Angeles and its iconic palm trees (“Palm trees are about as L.A. as it gets. But is it time to bid them a frond farewell?”), Patt Morrison wrote ...