A million dollar home with a blue bottle garden for lawn replacement
by The design of this front garden breaks almost every rule of conventional garden design. The woman who owns this home told me that she decided …
Category: Los Angeles Gardens
A Sunday stroll in Descanso Gardens near Los Angeles
Originally the Descanso Gardens was an estate where camellias and roses were grown commercially. The owners back then, Mr. and Mrs. Boddy, also replanted California oak trees …
The Yoko Ono Wish Tree garden in Pasadena
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 …
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 …