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One of the main reasons for starting Phyte Club was as motivation to visit plants around the world, both for myself and for readers. As much as the Bay Area is covered in enthralling flora, sometimes I need to get out and experience what else is growing beyond. botanical gardens are a sanctuary [...]  One year obsessed with all things -phyte and 97 posts later, Phyte Club as idea and online entity turns a whopping one year-old. In honor of it being an Aries, then, here are some token flowers of the Ram: Red poppies! On fire…… Hollyhock from the SF Botanical Garden in October
Fuchsia "Rose of Castile" from a garden in the Haight There are two cool new online resources for plant geeks. The first is The Plant List: a working compendium of all the known plant species growing in the known universe. Wow. This means 1,040,426 species are recorded in one place, representing 620 plant [...] Though it’d be surprising to find a culture that doesn’t imbue plants with specific meanings, in Asian tradition flowers and trees are especially symbolic. The “three friends of winter,” or Shou Chiku Bai, in Japan and China — and their associated qualities — call forth worthy ideals with which to ring in [...] grace slick and janis joplin have nothing to do with redwoods, necessarily, I just love this photo by Jim Marshall. As the world’s tallest trees, redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are already a uniquely impressive plant. These behemoths of the northern California coast are ancient relicts — leftover populations from the time dinosaurs roamed the [...] climbing mountain petals fog drip on violet A couple weeks ago I was doing my regular docent gig at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, which means setting up a table for two hours with whatever plants and theme my partner and I choose and telling visitors about them. The ten-week class that [...] almost as dangerous as pee on the toilet seat And, in other recent San Francisco plant news, some asshole(s) is getting arborcidal in Golden Gate Park and trying to annihilate the Rose Garden. This comes after someone stole the 1847 bell from the Fragrance Garden in the Botanical Garden this past winter (which [...] Earlier this morning I was volunteering with the Eyes and Ears project at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. My “beat” is the Ancient Plant Garden, an area highlighting the evolution of plants from pond scum to angiosperms (aka, flowering plants) and all the mosses, horsetails, ferns, and conifers that came to be in between. [...]
The wildflowers in the 3.5 acre California Garden at the SF Botanical Garden are still going off. Though the California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) and yellow and white striped meadowfoam (Limnanthes douglasii) have mostly bloomed and gone to seed, the meadow is boasting a second-wave of colorful [...] Emerald and gold….This morning while volunteering in the California Native Garden this little pollinator happened to catch my eye as I was zipping down the trail between ripping out weeds. How could he not? I looked down at just the right time, and proceeded to take about four dozen photos of him getting doused [...] |
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