The dragon's liar. My old home at the foot of Cahuilla mountain. I lived there for twelve years all by myself. And in exchange for a low rent I was the properties care taker. Meaning mostly keeping the brush clear. Yet also some landscaping, fence mending, and all around maintenance on well equipment, and mobile upkeep (roofing and plumbing). I greatly miss the place. Plenty of solitude and no one to bother me or me them.
@Peaches Unfortunately that one isn't a pine tree. It's a ribbonwood tree (better known as redshank tree).
Very messy with all the strands of ribbons. Takes a lot of work to clear all the ribbons and train it to grow as a tree especially when you clear and train half a dozen of them or more.
This is what it typically looks like trained yet uncleaned.
Yet when cleaned, trained and it's in bloom its very pretty. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the bloom of this variety. It's all white. This is the red version untrained:
Very few people ever bother cleaning and training these trees and they normally consider them large brush or chaparral.
This one was over 30 foot tall. It towered over the mobile before I left. And the trunk was approximately 5 foot round in diameter.
