Arboretum
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May’s Tree of the Month: Monterey Pine
A tree is a versatile metaphor for life itself — indeed, examples of this are scattered across our cultural history as a thousand leaves upon an autumn lawn. From the […]
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April’s Tree of the Month: Deodar Cedar
By Cypress Lawn Arboretum Director Josh Gevertz Looking up into the canopy above me, on an afternoon stroll across the Arboretum grounds, a sure sign of the turn of spring […]
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March’s Tree of the Month: Cork Oak
Perhaps no singular tree in the entire Cypress Lawn Arboretum collection is so grand as this – unassuming, still, in the lee of the ever-so-stately Hammond family monument, its gargantuan […]
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February’s Tree of the Month: Monterey Cypress
By Josh Gevertz, Arboretum Director at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park As our namesake tree at the Cypress Lawn Arboretum, the Monterey cypress is a unique species that we treasure as […]