JoeReal

I believe there used to be Mangal type plants here before humans tamed the river and the Valley for agriculture. Our city used to be a big part of a big marshland that runs through the Valley pouring into the Delta before the dams were built.

Popular fruit plants here are figs and plums or rootstocks that tolerate heavy clay sodic soils. Other natives would still be oak, endemic laurels and cacti-plants, and of course Tulle plants, salt tolerant grasses if we let them have their way.

But I am such a hard head who wouldn't want to plant what's best but to challenge the elements here and produce what they said cannot be done, so I grow bananas, citruses, blueberries along with high chill crops. I get decent crops of blueberries even with bad well water. I grew more than 355 cultivars of fruits in such a tiny residential yard, and they all produce fantastic crops. But that comes with a price called vigilance, labor and creative growing techniques.