It’s undoubtedly one of those neighborhood evolutionary things. Not too long ago, Pine Avenue was the unofficial WGx barometer of the local real estate market, based simply by the number of houses for sale on the street.

Times have changed a bit. A stroll down one of WG’s central east-west corridors now reveals very few homes for sale … but lots of landscape being redeveloped. Or at least, lots of landscapes companies advertising their services along the boulevard.

Check it out — there are now more landscape company signs on Pine than anything else. Pearman Landscaping (twice, actually), A Scape Artist, and a newly planted big green sign for LifeScape.

Throw in the recent toilet-paper landscape across the street from the uniquely stacked wood cuttings, along with the infrequent weedscape, and you’ve got quite an interesting variety of front yards designs.

Seriously though … if you are looking for a local landscape architect, you have many choices. The California Landscape Contractors Association lists more than 80 members serving the South Bay.

It didn’t seem noteworthy at the time, but a few months ago, there were several painting service signs. Come to think of it, maybe for-sale signs are about to come back …