TW, in Zone 10 Los Angeles they don't have cold weather. They also don't have hot weather. I used to live in Hawthorne just south of the airport and had to carry a windbreaker or sweater every day of the year. Now is perfect for starting St Aug. In your area you can probably have it green all year without ever going into dormancy. Water it once a week and mulch mow at 4 inches and you'll be good to go. When it does rain (Christmas week and all of February) you don't need to water. DO NOT TILL in preparation for turf. All the books and magazines are wrong on that advice. Tilling might fluff the soil for the garden but for lawns it results in a bumpy surface three years later. In your area, since you only have one season, you should plan to fertilize at about 1/2 the bag rate on the 31st of every month that has a 31st. If you want to try an organic program (hard to find the cheap stuff in SoCal), then fertilize at 10-20 pounds per 1,000 square feet on the 31st's. Continuing to think about watering...if you live in the zone where they have "late night and early morning low clouds near the coast, burning off at 11," then you might not need to water once a week. You can probably go to once every 2 weeks. Let the grass tell you when to water. For establishing the new plugs, water 3x per day for 10 minutes each. After the grass gets up to 4 inches high, then start backing off on water until you are doing it every other week.

I am certainly no expert, but I think the humidity effects the fruit more than the plant. It is my understanding that the fruit splits open before ripening in high humidity. I planted a one gallon dwarf bush this year (in january) and it looks super-healthy and is growing like crazy (it has over doubled in size). I live in Houston where it is very humid like LA, and we have had a ton of rain this spring. I have one bud that is about to bloom. I am with Keith - give it a shot. Plant it on a mound thats not in a low spot of your yard. If you know anyone who has one, or if you buy one at the grocery store, they are supposed to be very easy to grow from cuttings or seeds. I planned on doing it this way, but a 1 gallon plant was $5 and a pomegranate at the store was $1, so it just made a lot more sense to buy the plant.

This is the same cemetery in the SF East Bay, Concord, that has the blush rose, though I'm not sure the bushes will be there much longer and I'm not even sure this one is still there. Here's a picture of where is was along with the blush rose which I think this bush is. I got a half a dozen to root, but they have not bloomed yet. Two sides of the coin so to speak. There were 2 roses here and I arrived too late to see if there are, blooming was finished. It looks like there still could be two, but I'm not sure. There are no headstones on the other side of the bush, just a concrete pad on one plotand an empty plo. Some others were in bloom and look like Duchess de Brabant if I can be any judge of that. They were in 2 locations. The headstone near this one. My former boss has Soares relatives and some others in this cemetery. They came from the Azores and were early settlers of Concord. And then there is this lonely sick little rose bush and that is all that is left, the drought and neglect have taken their toll. There was only enough green growth for me to take one little cutting of this.

It is a sable colored Labradoodle. He was chocolate brown as puppy, but as he grew, he changed to sable. DD wanted a dog with a even, gentle temperament, that was hypoallergenic, that did not shed, and that could be trained. She and DSIL got the dog about 2 years before the twins came along. He went to boarding school for a month when he was 4-6 months old. Then whenever they would go out of town, they would board the dog for the weekend and he’d get “refresher training.” Plus, DD and DSIL were careful to not undermine his training. When the babies came along, he was calm and gentle around them. If the twins got boisterous, the dog would just move to another room. Our neighbors have a Goldendoodle. She is a good bit more rambunctious. I don’t know if that is an issue with the breed or if it is an issue with training.