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Reader Meg Sullivan's photograph from the Rancho Park neighborhood.
Flora
Autumn colors come to Los Angeles
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Put Jamal Khashoggi Square outside the Saudi consulate on Sawtelle
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Joshua Tree in bloom
Desert flowers and fancy at Anza-Borrego
Treasure hunt for trees from the Gold Rush era
Native plant sale at the Theodore Payne Foundation
Mojave's Joshua trees are in bad shape
Water the grass less -- but don't forget the trees