Cover of Trees in paradise

Book 2013

Trees in paradise

4.01 5 readers shelved it

Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Published
2013
  • Horticulture
  • Eucalyptus
  • Landscape assessment
  • Palms
  • Citrus
  • Coast redwood
  • Trees
  • Human ecology

Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles.