Gardens are always in sway—day to day, season to season, year to year.

Spring is alive with the vibrant colors of wildflowers, hum of bees, and swaying blonde stalks of deer grass that will provide food for birds in the summer months.

Summer heat intensifies the color of sage, its scent carried on the breeze like the Monarch butterflies in search of milkweed as western fence lizards bask on warm rocks below.

In Fall the late-summer blooms of buckwheat turn from delicate cream to a rich rust color, complimenting the bright red orange of California fuchsia that draws in hummingbirds.

Winter brings the earliest soft pink blooms of manzanita and bold blue flowers of ceanothus as birds harvest red toyon berries.

As the year ends and another begins, the rains prepare the plants and soil for new growth and more changes. It’s a living, breathing ecosystem that is beautiful and unique to Southern California.