WaterSmart makeover: A forest of cycads in Vista

WaterSmart makeover: A forest of cycads in Vista

For The Union-Tribune John Allen has an addiction, and he readily admits it. He can’t live without cycads. He has planted dozens of varieties of them across his 1-acre hillside property in rural Vista. Allen bought the house back in 2007 and lives there with his partner, Bob. Almost immediately after moving in, he started to redo the landscape. “I turned off the outside water, killed the grass lawn in front and back, had juniper shrubs, hedges a…