If you’re dreaming of lush landscapes and surreal natural beauty, let me introduce you to one of Colombia’s most magical ...

Call me heretical, but sometimes I feel that way about L.A.’s palm trees. The difference is that ... The raffish banana palm, which had such a vogue as landscaping for Midcentury Modern ...

but landscaping in the 1930s was when the real craze for palms came to California. In 1931 the Los Angeles forestry division planted more than 25,000 palm trees around the city. The most common ...