This rampant jasmine is perhaps Jasminum polyanthum. It is commonly known as the pink jasmine or the white jasmine or the many flowered jasmine. It grows in a shady position, covering a damp wall, with roots who knows where? Walking past its exuberant self is a joy indeed. It lights up this gloomy alley and fills it with a delicious fragrance. Worth a detour any day.
Detour
Off The Edge Gardening 
On a totally different note, you appear to be in daily communication with your Mum again. Which is a bonus for the rest of us. Your purpose in meandering up a dark alleyway is something on which I will not cogitate.
Though I will add it to my book of excuses when caught in a compromising situation. 😉
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Yes, I am a good daughter! I doubt whether you are ever short of excuses, but just in case you can borrow “smelling the jasmine”. M’lud. 🙂
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I learned it as pink jasmine. I think it is blooming in Southern California now. I do not remember when it blooms, but it is different from Northern California, and it is variable.
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So are you in Northern California Tony? Hope you are a safe distance from the terrible fires we are hearing about.
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We are in Santa Cruz County here, without fires. However, we are in an area where fires are a serious concern. Redwood trees are not very combustible, but everything else is. My home has many burned stumps from a fire that went through in the 1950’s, even though the redwoods survived. A few years ago, there were plumes of smoke to the east, west and north of my home.
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Glad you are safe and sound, very sad for those that aren’t so lucky.
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The smoke here is wicked today though!
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😦
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Quite fetching! Definitely worth a detour.
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Lovely. xx
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Such a heavenly scent. 🌼
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Jasmine fragrance is heavenly 🙂
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