The Yoko Ono Wish Tree garden in Pasadena
by Inspired by Yoko Ono, a ‘wish tree’ garden is in the heart of the beautiful Arlington Garden in Pasadena. Two Crape Myrtle trees in full …
Category: Los Angeles Gardens
Poppies are blooming in Pasadena and coming soon to the high desert Poppy Reserve
After years of drought the rain this winter has given renewed life to the intrepid California poppies. A block from my home the Throop Church’s …
Purple Jacaranda trees in bloom along Del Mar about a month early
Decades ago–say, back in the 1970s and 1980s–the Brazilian Jacaranda trees planted all over Los Angeles bloomed in early June. In recent years the trees …
A secret garden tucked away in Pasadena is filled with quiet places
Pasadena’s Arlington Garden came into being thanks to the efforts of two neighbors, Betty and Charles McKenney, who disliked looking out at an empty 3 acre …
The mysterious source of L.A. River water? (Hint: not those clouds above you.)
As storms sweep into the West Coast the Los Angeles River has become at times a raging flood of water racing to the Long Beach …
Visiting the Getty to see amazing photos and views of Los Angeles
I went to the Getty Center yesterday to see an exhibition of the photography of Ishiuchi Miyako. She launched her career taking photos of U.S. …
See the real Los Angeles River which Frank Gerhy and others plan to change. For the good?
Recently I began to read reports that notable architect Frank Gehry had been hired by an organization I’d never heard of to design plans to …
Cycling to the beach, painting a bus, playing an ecello at CicLAvia Culver City
I didn’t ride in this CicLAvia, but took the Expo Metro Line out to Culver City, one of the hubs for the event. The next …
OMG! Jacaranda trees are blooming 6 weeks early in Pasadena. It must be the California drought.
We have a Westside dermatologist and Arboretum co-founder, Dr. Samuel Ayres, to thank for the thousands of Jacaranda trees in Southern California. Back in the …
Pershing Square in downtown L.A. is labeled an “artsy park” by Google Maps, but that’s only part of the picture!
Named after “Black Jack” Pershing, a hero of World War I, Pershing Square was once a shady green park in the heart of downtown Los …