chrck home depot,my home depot has plenty of nagami kumquats.Also upland nursery and mimosa nursery in anaheim has plenty of citrus and fruit trees.

The most amazing gardens world famous is the Huntington Gardens and library. This massive acreage was owned way back when Huntington started the railroads. They have huge marble, gorgeous, furnished buildings that used to be their homes, with the finest collections of everything, paintings,antiques, just breath taking. The gardens are amazing, huge collections of every rose possible old and new, cactus gardens, Japanese gardens, even a tea house. It's a full day and plenty of benches for relaxation and docents to explain everything. Look up Huntington Library for all the details. The weather is gorgeous and perfect for a stroll through the very best ever. Debby

Hi Jeri, How neat I wish I had met them too, just to say thanks for the wonderful roses they created. I have Faith Whittlesey, Garnet Crest, Krishna's Peach and Alister's Gift. All they are doing awesome in my garden, they put my Austin's roses to shame. Alister's Gift is my favorite, but I have a fondness for hybrid gigantea, she is a rose on steroids. If I keep this pace in the next two years IÂll buy them all. BTW Rose Unlimited rocks! Ocbrian- Viru Viraraghavan and hid wife Girija are two great rosarians that breed roses from the line of R. clinophylla and R. gigantea. Simona

I was admiring a pair of Arbutus a couple of weeks ago. They were planted over ground cover so fruit drop and bird poop were not a problem. Crape myrtle, on the other hand seem to mildew badly for me, here in Orange. Of course, my favorite tree is probably not a good choice, but if you have the right conditions, a coast live oak is a fine tree. When we moved into our house in February, 2005 I almost pulled up a "weed" in the parking strip which was actually a newly sprouted acorn that still had seed leaves and only four true leaves. I left it alone and shut off the sprinklers to the juniper in that strip (not so good for the junipers). By early spring, 2011 it had grown into a bush about 6' tall. The city came out to trim the sweet gums in our neighborhood about that time. One of the sweet gums in the other parking strip was diseased and planted too close to the sewer line. However, before it could be cut down, the city forester had to come out and sign off on the plan. Well indeed he did the next day. I was sure that my oak would be toast once he saw the tree growing in my (really the city's) parking strip. To my amusement, however, he took one look at the oak bush, pulled his pruning shears out of a pocket, and limbed it up into a tree. He didn't mind the contraband tree as long as it wasn't badly grown. My baby had grown up. It's actually about 8' tall this year and starting to look like a tree. I'm prejudiced, but I think it's beautiful. There are no other oaks in the neighborhood so it's origin is a mystery.