Thank you for all the feed back everyone.
RICHARD: The standard response will be to add Gypsum, but this is a poor choice for your soils in Riverside, CA. How do you know you have excessive salts and what kind are they?
It's a long story covering a 2 1/2 year period and will be mentioned in my next novel when it gets published. But simply put, recently I found rock salt and an empty Morton iodized salt container in my front yard when I went to do my yard work, and my front yard is looking very sick. The top 2 inches of my iris' are brown, my roses aren't producing blooms, my yard is begining to yellow, and my King Sago's are browning. I just hope I can save everything especial my prize twin head King Sago I use as my avitar.
Richard: I don't know if I mentioned it to you but when I became a member at bananas.org I PM you about a Richard my son knows and I have meet him. He is a terrific person and very educated in the world of plants.
Again I just want to than everyone for their feed back.