Yes, I'm sure any nursery would be happy to order any citrus tree, but I have never seen them offer baby trees, and it would probably charge 50 to 75 dollars for a one gallon one. And if you are just going to use it to cut off the top and re-graft it, that's a pretty expensive way to learn to graft. Obviously in a perfect world I would ALWAYS "shop local", but having to choose between paying 10 dollars for a baby citrus at HD, and paying 75 dollars to shop local for a single tree, most of us would never learn to graft! As for Grampa's--do they even ship to California? Most nurseries in other States don't because of the restrictions, except for Oregon and Washington. It would be nice if they did, because I think I saw M-111 on there for apples, and that's one of the best for California soil issues. Carla in Sac

Here is the trick. If you imagine a 4 x 8' sheet of plywood cut in half to make two 4 x 4 sections. Now imagine these squares where you want to have your mature plumerias. Count the squares and do not buy more plants than you can fit squares. That way in ten years you are not sitting there giving away 8' plants because you have no room and your young ones are still growing. By the way, for beauty and scent, Kauka Wilder, Kimi Moragne, and Veracruz Rose are wonderful. Here is some eye candy........ If you could only smell the pictures (scratch-n-sniff). Now, just say, "hi my name is ________ and i am a plumeriaholic"

Jacqueline, Most likely it would have jumped 20 lanes had they been there. However, maybe they need to take another look at how to build the fire lanes. Back in the horse and buggy days the fire wagons didn’t have much power behind their water streams, but today they do. Same things goes for the fire lanes. Don’t fight the fires with yesterdays technology. Maybe a few water tanks spaced around the areas with pipes running to pump houses that wet the areas down such that any flying sparks can’t start new fires. Screens to catch the flying sparks. Not that any of that would work but I feel they need to sit down and take another look at it. Some time back my son told me that one of the ways they now fight fires in a building is poke a pipe through the building right into the center of the hottest fire and then suck the heat out. Sounds like that would just be adding fuel to the fire but it removes the heat allowing the water to put the fire out. Also, in this day and age why not put fire/heat sensors around such that the fires are located before they become 800,000 acres in size. A camera feeding a picture to a program that would scan the pictures for fires would allow huge areas to be monitored without any moving parts needed. Just mount the camera up high so a large area is scanned. Lets hope they get the fires put out soon as it sure is putting a hurt to a lot of folks.

Guessing you cannot paint the walls or cabinets much less the countertops? But, if you can, You Tube has vids on how to paint such countertops -- requires "roughing" them first, so likely would not invest that much effort and risk of poor result in a rental . If the cabinet doors are veneer, they'll likely have a finish that will not paint well either. Large thin cutting boards in tinted or colored glass (or a solid color in another material) could cover most of the countertop and it would be something you could take with you when you move. Some of them even have interesting pics on them so you could use double sticky tape and/or velcro to "hang" them against the backsplash to draw attention away from the countertop if you find you don't want them on the countertop itself. https://www.google.com/search?q=large+smoke+glass+cutting+board&source=lmns&tbm=shop&bih=626&biw=1366&client=firefox-b-1-d&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzhvmD_cbuAhVHMN8KHSuoDPwQ_AUoAXoECAEQAQ