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Touring the campus in 1948, famed Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper described the property as “like a fabulous country club beautifully situated amidst gardens, oak trees, and all kinds of flowering shrubs.”

Many homeowners — who sought homes surrounded by nature — resisted stripping their land of shrubs and trees.

Stewart recommended cactus, succulents and an evergreen shrub called an African boxwood.

A centuries-old culinary staple in Asia, pandan is a tropical shrub whose leaves are boiled and used for flavoring in drinks, desserts, rice and more.

The shrubs abutting the building had caught fire.