July 11, 2011
I visited a beautiful Prospect Heights home with an English Garden peppered with hand crafted fountains. The owner has planted an orchard in the backyard with four to five different sitting areas, as well as a raised bed area for herbs and vegetables. Clearly, plants love Santa Cruz. We have a temperate climate, with fertile soil, and it’s rarely too hot, so a wide variety of plantings thrive. The area between the ocean and Prospect Heights, that angles its way up through Seabright as a bent cylinder, is commonly called the Banana Belt. I have asked the question for years; does the name reference the shape of the area on the map, or does it reference the growing of bananas? For decades the marine layer in Santa Cruz was thicker than it is now, but this one area, shaped like a banana, was warmer than most. The owner of the home says he thinks the name references the fruit. By my rough count, from all the times I have asked the question, the answers are split pretty closely 50%-50%. Over 100 for the shape, over 100 for the fruit. Suffice it to say, it’s a micro climate, that makes living in the Seabright area, and in Prospect Heights a little more favorable than other places in the State of California.
David Morrell
International President’s Elite
Coldwell Banker – Santa Cruz
831-239-1255 | david@davidmorrellsc.com
www.DavidMorrellSC.com
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