PUSHING THE BORDERS

One of the places we visited while over in California this Spring, sadly it was chucking it down all day so it was a much briefer visit than we had intended

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554 Doryanths palmeri by charliepridham, on Flickr

553 by charliepridham, on Flickr

550 Salvia lianensis by charliepridham, on Flickr

549 by charliepridham, on Flickr

543 Aloe succotrina by charliepridham, on Flickr

542 by charliepridham, on Flickr

541 by charliepridham, on Flickr

538 Mahonia doucloxiana by charliepridham, on Flickr

537 by charliepridham, on Flickr

535 Protea magnifica by charliepridham, on Flickr

533 Greyia radlkoferi by charliepridham, on Flickr

532 by charliepridham, on Flickr

530 Podocarpus henkelii by charliepridham, on Flickr

528 Fuchsia x bacillaris by charliepridham, on Flickr

526 Rogifera strigosa by charliepridham, on Flickr

524 Fuchsia splendens by charliepridham, on Flickr

523 Fuchsia arborescens by charliepridham, on Flickr

521 Ichroma fuchsoides by charliepridham, on Flickr

520 strybing by charliepridham, on Flickr

518 agapetes serpens by charliepridham, on Flickr

517 strybing by charliepridham, on Flickr

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515 by charliepridham, on Flickr

513 westringa rosmariniformis by charliepridham, on Flickr

511 stybing botanic by charliepridham, on Flickr

512 by charliepridham, on Flickr

506 schefflera delavayi by charliepridham, on Flickr

508 sonchus palmensis by charliepridham, on Flickr

504 magnolia doltsopa by charliepridham, on Flickr

Nice to see someone else struggling with Celandine!

503 stybing botanic by charliepridham, on Flickr

502 stybing botanic by charliepridham, on Flickr

501 stybing botanic by charliepridham, on Flickr

500 stybing botanic by charliepridham, on Flickr

497 stybing botanic by charliepridham, on Flickr

557 by charliepridham, on Flickr

I have to say (rain apart) San Francisco is very easy to get about, although we had a hire car we left it parked for entire stay in town, lots of motel type accommodation down by the beach next to the Goldengate park (which contains the Strybing) public transport was easy and cheap, and all electric, all the buses were Hydrogen fuel cells, most of the car traffic was also electric the air definitely felt a lot cleaner than any of our cities

Charlie, many thanks for posting those pictures of a wonderful looking garden.

Something nice and cheerful to look at on a dull UK winter day... or is it technically still autumn?

The garden and general area around San Francisco is one of many I would love to go and see. Good to learn it is a city you can get about without a car too, as I don't drive that is useful to know.

It is great seeing so many plants that like the cooler and more humid conditions without too much fear of them being frozen. The sorts of things that can be tricky to please if you don't have the right climate year round for them, not really liking hot summers but then again not taking much in way of frost either.

Nice to see the Agapetes, a group of under known plants I think, there are some nice ones too in one of the specialised glasshouses at Edinburgh Botanic Garden to appreciate.

In 3rd from last picture, I like the big clump of Platycerium on that tree trunk too.

Like the grove of those fat trunked form of the Nikau palms at the end... beautiful!