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Portola District Garden Tour

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This past Saturday I had the great pleasure of going on an annual garden tour in the Portola District of San Francisco. The Portola Garden Tour is put on by members of the neighborhood every Fall. Proceeds from ticket sales … Continue reading

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Chlorophyll Connoisseurs!

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Last week some friends pointed out to me that I turned up in someone else’s blog. Cool! On Point is a neighborhood blog in the Bayview/Hunter’s Point community. A week or two ago someone took a pic of myself and … Continue reading

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Foggy Assets

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“Fog, Fog… I love the Fog I trip in the water, I fall in the sand I just love the Fog…”                         -Zann Cannon Goff, 1978   I wrote that simple and simplistic little poem when I was seven years … Continue reading

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Tumblr Tuesday (on a Thursday?!?)

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Hmm. Curious. Somehow I managed to put together a Tumblr Tuesday post this week and stop one click short of publishing it. What the heck? I blame the homework I’ve been muddling through lately. Yeah, that’s it. Oh, well. It … Continue reading

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Urban Hike: Twin Peaks

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With growing up in Nor Cal, and twenty years of living in San Francisco proper, I’ve been to the top of Twin Peaks by car a number of times. But, I had never fulfilled my desire to hike it. Until … Continue reading

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The Changing Seasons (repost from Alcatraz Gardens blog)

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Shelagh Fritz, the head gardener on Alcatraz, wrote a great post yesterday about Fall color succulents in our Mediterranean climate. She even touched on the summer leaf-drop of Aeoniums that I posted about recently. She has lots of gorgeous Spring/Fall … Continue reading

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So Long, Suckers!

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A few years ago my friends started up a blog over at Far Out Flora, and asked me to write a guest post. I was totally honored, and for some reason totally scared to write for a blog. I put … Continue reading

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What’s Wrong with My Aeonium?

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This time of year I hear that question a lot, from garden clients and from customers at Flora Grubb Gardens. Aeoniums are these beautiful rosette-forming, succulent, small shrubs and perennials. Though often called “Hens and Chicks” like the other succulent … Continue reading

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Fireworks on Alcatraz

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This week ahead I’ll be taking the editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine on a tour of the Gardens of Alcatraz as a follow-up to my soon-to-be-published essay, and realized I never posted from my last visit to The Rock. Don’t … Continue reading

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We’re Being Invaded!

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Around these parts you hear a lot about invasive species and the “Nativism” movement (eradicating introduced species of plants and replacing them with California native species.) This sort of thing is currently being done around the region with Australian eucalyptus … Continue reading

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