Producing Floriferous Gardens in San Francisco’s Mediterranean Climate.
May 23, 2025
Garden Conservancy - Open Gardens
May 20, 2025
Garden Conservancy - Open Gardens
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Max and Justin’s Oakland garden is a horticulturalist’s collection. A small gardens packed full of epiphytes around their cute bungalow. Intimate spaces to sit, relax and meditate.
May 06, 2025
May Flowers in San Francisco
A few snapshots of May Flowers in my gardens of San Francisco.
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Iris - Each stalk yields 8-9 double-socketed buds |
May 02, 2025
Dearborn Garden's Rose Border
On Friday mornings, there is no parking along this section of Bird Street. This is effectively the Rose border for Dearborn Community Garden. Well maintained by a dedicated member of the garden.
April 15, 2025
Saint Francis Woods Garden - April Flowers
This is the start of the second spring for this newly plants residential backyard. The layers of bulbs, annuals, flowering perennials and shrubs fill two rectangular beds.
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Narcissus, Geum and Leptospermum (Tea Tree) |
Bernal Hill Garden - April Flowers
April 05, 2025
Curious Flora Nursery (Reincarnation of Annie’s Annuals)
With much anxiety Angele and I drove up to Richmond, California to the new nursery called Curious Flora. I was curious. I was hoping for the best but prepared to be disappointed and ashamed. The best being a thriving commercial nursery producing fun and new things along with those successful heirlooms. The worst, a possible commercial implosion and the loss of a great gardening resource.
April 02, 2025
The Ruth Bancroft Garden & Nursery
March 16, 2025
Marshall Beach
It has been over 15 years since the Presidio became a national park in San Francisco. This area between Baker Beach to the south and the Golden Gate Bridge to the north has undergone a transformation removing many invasive weeds and planting all natives.
March 15, 2025
Flowers of March
March 12, 2025
Book Review - The Gardener’s Palette
A journey into color, this book with over a hundred selected color schemes will test your knowledge of what colors go together. Each scheme is two or three pages with a large photo and a plant list. It is hard to say if this is a reference book. Looking up say red,purple and apricot planting scheme is not easy as there is no real organization of the book. Or rather, I can’t figure out how this is organized. Maybe that will come to me on its second reading.
February 12, 2025
Flowers of February
February 07, 2025
Book Review - Shrouded in Light
By Kevin Philip Williams & Michael Guidi
January 01, 2025
Great Highway, San Francisco
I took the N-Judah street car to Ocean Beach and then walked the five miles back home. Here’s some characteristic street scenes.
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