What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined again by

Brian of Never Enough Dirt and today we're taking a bit of a travel through time. We're

going to be talking about citrus, how Brian's using it in the garden on his plot, and also kind of what's going on in California as far as the history of citrus and some of the plants that we have

that are very prolific here if you've ever been out here or if you're native to here.

So I thought maybe Brian we could start off with that that history. I would love to know what you have to share about that.

Yeah, California is a pretty interesting space. It was, as we all know, it's on the Western part of the United States and as the country

expanded westward the climate got more and more deserty and as you reach California

it's as as our sun is really intense.

Everything's hot and the climate doesn't resemble back as back home where the people came from from the eastern

side of the United States. So they turned to growing, they wanted a California

to look very much like home and they turned to specimens from Australia

because Australia has this very similar climate.

So they brought over a lot of the eucalyptus trees and a lot of specimens from Australia.

So that's if everyone's if anybody's been curious about that all these eucalyptus trees

that's because of that history.

Cool yeah actually I did not know that but eucaly. that's because of that history. Cool.

Yeah, actually I did not know that, but Eucalyptus here.

I lived close to Belvoa Park here in San Diego and they're just all over the place.

It's probably the most predominant tree in the park.

So cool to know that.

And then how does that tie into citrus

and then how does that tie into your garden?

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