Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical corner in hell, 1 by palmbob

palmbob wrote:
Just moved into this house 7 months ago, and nothing but hedges and lawn planted here... no canopy for growing tropicals in the super hot and a bit too cold valley here east of Los Angeles. But this one corner of the house gets minimal sun so am able to support some relatively tropical life. The rest of the yard is mostly a cactus garden now, but I do have palms started in front that will someday (some decade) form a canopy.