gardens etc.
oregon grape! (tilden, view large)
wild ginger (tilden)
california poppies, butterfly (tilden)
echeveria; reminded me of lotus flowers (tilden)
licorice fern (tilden)
fat solomon's seal (tilden)
i wanna say "dingleberry" (tilden)
nursery? (tilden)
name these trees (tilden)
lawrence hall of science
echeveria (uc)
mom on the path (uc)
a type of fucshia native to ca (uc)
vanilla (uc)
view large (uc)
lobster claw (forgot the local term used in hawaii that mom told me (uc) Have returned from a long day with mom, visiting two botanical gardens (tilden, uc) and briefly stopping at two rose gardens (berkeley, oakland), driving through cal bears football game traffic, eating ube (purple yam) ice cream at sabuy sabuy, going on a second gondola ride on lake merritt, going to merritt bakery for pumpkin pie, only they dont have, so went to albertsons and found one for $5, now mom is reading and i am writing....but before i forget i had a flashback dream, of lake berryessa, the water was an intense blue, ducks appeared out of nowhere (resembling the calm duck and pelican silhouettes tonight on lake merritt) and were moving west, and an oak tree sat across the water, not a very long distance, and i could see its roots. perfect clarity. dane was there, he had been showing me another section of the park or wherever this is. now i look back wth doubt, as this other person who didnt have that direct experience - maybe the roots were really the reflections of the branches and leaves. maybe not.
anyway, back to today. the winds this morning knocked down the plants on the wall, but no serious harm was done. a terra cotta pot broke and the calendula spilled out, but mom and i repotted it today. tomorrow after farmers market we're forgoing a trip to marin and instead going to check out the community garden plot i plan on cultivating in a week or two, and the gardens at lake merritt. walkable places. i also want her help with transplanting some sweet peas. they are growing in two rows, and i want to give each row its own planter.
so this entry is getting long - i think i will post another tomorrow with the medicinal plants and a recent trip to the herbalist's. i got to see a few plants that are mentioned in michael moore's medicinal plants of the pacific west. i also got to see healthy poppy natives, all thriving in rocky soil.