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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | MARCH 2021 | 13 Our Four Seasons community is truly a neighborhood of trees. Our trees bring beauty, shade, clean the air, provide oxygen, cool our streets and sidewalks, and offer many other benefits, including protecting and enhancing the value of our community and our homes. Your Landscape Committee spends a great deal of time protecting our valuable investment in our lovely landscaping, including our trees. You may have noticed recently, that a small silver disk has been affixed to each of our trees. These are identification tags that will better allow the Landscape Committee and our landscape contractor to monitor, trim, and protect our trees. We enjoy a number of tree varieties in our community. This article will highlight one of our trees that is relatively new to our community, the strawberry tree. This tree, as shown in the photo, replaced an oak tree that died just inside the main gate on Four Seasons Boulevard. The Landscape Committee reviewed a number of possible replacement trees for this prominent location and decided on this lovely multiple trunk strawberry tree. The strawberry tree is evergreen and flowers from August through November. It can take full sun or partial shade, is relatively compact, growing to a height of 16 to 17 feet, and does not require much water, being somewhat drought tolerant once fully established. It can also tolerate cold to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and has beautiful bark that will show long vertical slabs of different colors at it matures. So, for these reasons, your Landscape Committee selected the lovely strawberry tree as a good choice to enhance our lovely community. The Landscape Committee meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 1 pm at The Lodge. Residents are welcome to attend. Due to changing rules about holding meetings in The Lodge, please check with Maria Donti about how the Landscape Committee is meeting monthly. Landscape Committee