He explained that the culprit was laurel - used most often as hedging - which went trimmed became lethal. He said: “A lot of people grow laurel hedges - it’s an evergreen, it’s great for ...

Stella Kalinina for The New York Times Olive trees, like the ones lining this walkway to a house ... towers above a Laurel Canyon home, which unlike much of Los Angeles, is a hedge-free zone.