The Valley grows tough trees in soil that has no business growing them. Here is what thrives here, what is dying right now, where to plant so you do not regret it in thirty years, and the one native tree almost nobody plants.
Most homeowners call about a tree the week it finally looks bad. By then it has been in trouble for a year. Here are the signs of a dying tree in the order they appear, how to tell dead from dormant, and what can still be reversed.
