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For generations, the coral trees of San Vicente Boulevard have been celebrated as a Los Angeles landmark, a beloved running route and one of Southern California's most distinctive flowering landscapes. Explore stories about their history, beauty and the communities working to preserve them.
A wonderful portrait of San Vicente as one of Los Angeles's oldest and most popular running routes, with its towering coral trees forming part of the experience.
Read the storyProfiles horticulturist Samuel Ayres and recounts how the coral trees transformed the abandoned trolley right-of-way into a flowering landscape.
Read the storyCelebrates San Vicente as one of the finest places in Los Angeles to experience the coral tree's brilliant winter and spring bloom.
Read the storyPlaces the San Vicente coral trees among Los Angeles's "great, glorious tree plantings."
Read the storyDocuments the long history of residents raising money and organizing to care for the trees.
Read the storyCovers the August 16 community care day and the growing cooperation between residents on both sides of the Los Angeles–Santa Monica boundary.
Read the storyA photographic visit to the coral-tree median and its designation as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 148.
Read the storyA personal appreciation of the beautiful coral-tree corridor extending from Brentwood toward the Santa Monica coast.
Read the storyDescribes the shady, greenery-lined median and coral-tree corridor as one of the area's most pleasant running routes.
Read the storyPlaces San Vicente's "parade of red-flowering coral trees to the Pacific" within the broader history of Southern California horticulture.
Read the storyDocuments the monument markers, the former streetcar median and the continuation of the coral-tree landscape westward to Ocean Avenue.
Read the storyExplains David Barry Jr.'s connection to the planting and the importance of preserving the coral-tree median as a continuous linear landmark.
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