fruit tree

They also planted fruit trees because studies have shown that the trees will pull toxins into their woody parts without affecting the fruit, Davis said.

There were so many fruit trees everywhere, and I was just really inspired by that.

He’s an actor, too, as well as a master gardener and chief caretaker of what was a backyard paradise, with dozens of fruit trees.

For the better part of a century, generations of the Nakai family have kept the shelves at Hawthorne Nursery stocked with seeds and fertilizers, the lot outside full of fruit trees, potted plants and succulents.

But its Benedict Canyon space is magical — a hillside haven filled with fruit trees, towering pines and fragrant lavender bushes.