Originally Posted by gaberoo

I'm wondering if you couldn't put something like a vine in that shady spot (though I think the leaves would eventually need to be exposed to a certain amount of sunlight) and I am thinking of kiwi or hardy kiwi (actinidia arguta). Neither of these do well in South Florida I've been told (Pine Island Nursery here in the Redlands used to carry kiwi but they discontinued it since apparently it does not do too well in this climate).
A nursery in middle/north Florida carries hardy kiwi (so apparently it does well enough in that part of the state), but they told me that the plant needs a certain amount of cold during each winter for it to successfully flower and bear fruit (a shame really since I love the fruits and the plant is, as I remember, self-fertile). Maybe you get enough cold days in the Southern California area to grow this and have it fruit?