Even in the heat of summer, Horacio Fuentes doesn’t need any shade in his Wilshire Park backyard. After all, he has a chayote. A seamless sea of green runs from the second-floor eaves of his house to ...

Back yards in today’s subdivisions tend to be on the small side, though I have lived in a couple of homes built in 1912 that had small backyards as well. Of course gardens don’t need to be limited to ...