Minor nitpick as an amateur green thumb, but depending on where you're talking about in southern California, coastal California is a Chaparral ecoregion [1], ch

Minor nitpick as an amateur green thumb, but depending on where you're talking about in southern California, coastal California is a Chaparral ecoregion [1], characterized by a high density of shrubs. A desert has lower plant density. It irks me when people in the Bay Area and LA go full desert xeriscape because a) the plants are not adapted for those environments b) animals are less adapted to those plants and c) the exposed sand does little to locally cool the area, unlike native plants [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_coastal_sage_and_chaparral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_coastal_sage_and_ch...