What a difference a day makes....

Well, actually three years and a little rain... make that lots of rain.... and work.

This is what it looked like three years ago after cleaning up what was a bit of a bomb zone.

The plants have grown so much.

I'm learning more and more about what it is to have a garden here, where it is normal to go five or six months without a drop of rain. 

So there are plants for the dry season which are finally getting established.  And there are those which thrive in the rainy season like the cedron or lemon verbena and the grenadas or pomegranates, which lose all their leaves and look dead.  Now they are covered with leaves, the cedron exuding such an amazing fragrance.

Lots of flowers to come which will draw even more butterflies and hummingbirds.