Another Garden Conservancy tour - in Los Feliz

Yesterday was the second SoCal Garden Conservancy garden tour - this time in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.  Los Feliz is in the foothills near Griffith Park, so lots of steep, narrow, and twisty streets.  Although there are lots of beautiful houses in the neighborhood, I admit I don't think I could live there and have to do that kind of driving every day (and the parking is terrible too!).  But I had a fun time visiting them for a day.

There were 6 homes on the tour; everything from an historic 1922 Lloyd Wright concrete and wood moderne and a 1930s Paul Williams Mediterranean Revival mansion (which had a major recent renovation to both the house and the landscaping which must have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars!) to more modest bungalows and Spanish revivals.  I went on the tour in the morning and then volunteered at one of the gardens for the afternoon.  Both the owner and the landscape designer were there answering my and the visitors' questions, which made it much more interesting.  It's the garden near the end of this post with the swimming pool and waterfall wall.

You'll notice that the weather was much different this weekend - last week it was sunny and in the 80's F; this weekend it was 20 degrees cooler, windy and threatening rain all day.

Hope you enjoy these garden views.