The day after the Fling…

The San Francisco Garden Bloggers Fling wrapped on a Sunday night, however since Andrew accompanied me to SF and we’d hardly spent any time together we stayed on until Tuesday morning. We had big plans in Berkeley on Monday but the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers decided to strike that morning throwing a big ol’ wrench in our day. So instead we walked…

And walked some more, including up to the top of Telegraph Hill and to The Coit Tower.

If you’d have asked me that morning if I was up for seeing (and photographing) more plants I would have laughed. Turns out its just habit, see a cool plant…reach for the camera.

I believe this a bloomed out Beschorneria but I have no idea which one.

The Golden Gate as seen from Telegraph Hill.

Alcatraz

Oh and there were lots of cool plants up there.

But there were also rules.

You might ask yourself why there is a statue of Christopher Columbus here. I know I did.

I've got no idea which Callistemon this is, but it's LUSH...

Pineapple Guava (Feijoa sellowiana)

What are these? Strange tops, strange bottoms.

But there are leaves...

Looking out at the city from above a huge Echium...

Now we've left the Coit Tower and are heading down off the hill.

Tall tree-ferns get me every-time...

Not to mention bougainvillea, gorgeous bougainvillea...

Views from the street...

This building is where we were headed. More on that in a minute.

Here's someone going for broke!

I do love a gardener who just HAS TO GARDEN...

Where there might be a sickly little street tree instead there are succulents.

And soon to be more.

Nice color...

Here was an unexpected pocket garden tucked in a steep, narrow strip of land.

That's a very very controlled Cotinus, can you believe how flat it is?

When you live like this you need pockets of green wherever you can find them.

Is this a crime scene?

Or just someone wanting to give their plants a fighting chance?

So we arrive at our second destination.

A redwood forest in the city!

And more tree-ferns...

Beautiful!

And this, it really was this green...

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