The white flower season begins here in the garden of pure fumes with gardenia, then gradually overlaps with jasmine sambac which overlap...

Despite watering and pulling weeds, the garden has pretty much been abandoned since February when I began putting the course together. (...

The rains have FINALLY arrived to Los Angeles! I'm so happy as I am sure the woodland plants and beasties are as well. We were able ...

Although the jasmine blooms seemed to get to a slow start this year they sure have been producing dynamically lately! Every evenin...

Some of the plants in my garden are acting as if its Spring, even though we are in the middle of Summer. I'm guessing this is du...

The heavy rains from last week gave our very dry earth a much needed soaking producing a few blooms in the garden. The girls have...

In the woodland today skies are grey with a chance of rain and the rich, heavy fragrance of the night blooming pink jasmine is in the ai...

Here in the Southern California woodland Spring arrives early, even when we've had little to no rain. The first flowers to appe...

We are in mid July and the jasmine harvest is in full swing. In the past I would harvest the delicate, white flowers in the morning. This...

Yesterday, after brunch, I installed Instagram on the I-pad just before heading out to work in the garden. Instagram is a free photo ap...

 "A garden, where one may enter in and forget the whole world, cannot be made in a week,  nor a month, nor a year; it must be pla...

For the last two months there have been little signs of Spring here in my little wild wood garden. First is the ever persistent non-nativ...