re: Trees for Medit. area

Charles,
 
Thank you - I had forgotten about your site - I better check it out when making reference to trees.  I am going to put your site in my favorites so I can find it again quickly.
 
For the Robinia idahoensis you have shown - I thought the variety with pink flowers was Robinia x ambigua - I had planted three of those trees at my last house in Tuolumne and they were labeled as x ambigua?  Was idahoensis the original form and the cultivars were developed from that one - I think the ambigua was supposed to grow a bit smaller and more compact branching and less brittle with age?  Wonder what the difference is here - it would be curious to know?  Anyway the ones I planted in Tuolumne grew rapidly and put on a wonderful display of flowers at a young age.  Sonora has quite a few of them planted - some outside of Beverly Healthcare and one in front Carl's Junior on the way up to Dodge Ridge - that was where I first saw one and wanted to plant it.
 
With all your tree pictures, I can see a book coming with places listed to see mature specimen trees - actually that is a very good idea - people are often reluctant to plant new trees because they have no idea what they will look like when they are mature - if they only saw what the mature specimen looked like and where they could go and see it in person, they would probably not be overplanting liquidambar, redwood, Bradford pear, etc, etc.
 
Linda Starr
Springville Gardens Lavender Farm
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