Visited on July 21, 2024
For the overview of this long weekend garden tour, click here ==>>MUG | Mike's Urban Garden | MUG
Producing Floriferous Gardens in San Francisco’s Mediterranean Climate.
April 01, 2025
Fling Tour - Heronswood Garden
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.
December 15, 2024
Model Train City for the Holidays
Every year around Thanksgiving we start to unpack and build the model city located this year in the dining room. So far we only have a basic layout but here are some from past years.
A good three tiered layout with three nested loops.
December 03, 2024
Book Review - Mien Ruys - The Mother of Modernist Gardens
By Julia Crowford
A good introduction to this gardener, designer, sometimes landscape architect. Known for her simple shapes and clean lines, she utilized modern materials to create garden spaces for people to mingle with Nature.
This make me think back to my visit to her home garden in Dedemsvaart in 2016 ==>>
November 30, 2024
Streets of San Francisco
November 15, 2024
Book Review - A Field Guide to California Lichens
By Stephen Sharnoff
I found this book at the Huntington Gardens gift shop. I wanted to learn more about Lichen and which ones I see in my gardens and environs.
This made me start to take photos up close of those in my gardens. This first I need to ID is on an old rose cane in Eureka Valley.
November 05, 2024
The Huntington - Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens
The Huntington, near Pasadena in Southern California, San Marino to be exact, is a library, art museum and botanical gardens. The Botanical Gardens is 130 areas with 16 themed gardens.
October 29, 2024
October in San Francisco - Sutro Tower
September 24, 2024
Public Transport in San Francisco
Muni Heritage Fleet Weekend.
A rare double ended trolley in Muni Wings livery, starting off its run from Castro headed to Fisherman's Wharf.
It is four in the afternoon and I understand many of the historic fleet will travel up Market to either 17th or Church following the J-Church out to the Barn on Ocean Ave. I decided to walk up Market Street from Castro to see the Parade.
August 27, 2024
Dolores Street Hell-Strip
This sidewalk hell-strip garden has a harsh southern exposure surrounded by concrete and asphalt. It is irrigated in the summer dry months. I have been replacing those plants which couldn't take the exposure like a mop head hydrangea, I do not lie, with Mediterranean and California native plants and cultivars.
This is a year in review post and these most recent photos were taken the first week of July, 2024.
August 20, 2024
Dahlia Show - San Francisco Botanical Gardens
Although the Dahlia is the official flower of San Francisco, I find it difficult to grow well in my gardens. It is hard to look at all these gorgeous flowers and not want to try again. We will see.
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