We just render from a wonderful vacation in California . While I really enjoyed visiting with friends in San Francisco , I most enjoyed set my eye on the giant sequoias for the first meter in my life . It ’s always nice to check something off your bucket list , and seeing the sequoia was definitely on mine .
In addition to hang out with the wonderful tree , I reveled in a visit to some recently restored sand sand dune in Monterey . Having lived in Pennsylvania my entire life-time , it ’s a real joy to have the chance to recognise some novel - to - me plants , including many species of our North American native buckwheat and a really cool plant called Phacelia , commonly called fiddleneck for it ’s uncurling , coiled bloom head .
A visit to the San Francisco Botanic Garden in Golden Gate Park was another highlight as was a walk through the Japanese Tea Garden there . My favorite part of the botanic garden was the California - natives country . I had a courteous conversation with one of the gardeners there who helped me turn up a shrub call Coyote Brush that is quite uncouth on the West Coast but non - existent here in the East . Although it was n’t in bloom , I stick a dear idea of what the shrub is all about .
Yosemite Valley was its grand ego — far more breathtaking than I ever reckon , specially from a bicycle . Coming home from vacation is always a difficult matter . Please enjoy some of my favorite garden depiction from our slip . Consider it a miniskirt - vacation !
Beware if you discover Phacelia , aka fiddleneck , growing near your farm . This plant can be toxic to livestock if ingested and can disturb crop field of force , grove , pasturage , grassland and vineyard . Many coinage of fiddleneck produce in California , and they often grow to 4 pes grandiloquent .
The California - native incision of the in Golden Gate Park Botanical Garden was one of my favorites .
Here is the lush paries at the Golden Gate Park Botanical Garden , one of the parks specialty collections .
At Golden Gate Park Nipponese Tea garden is a five - tarradiddle pagoda ( aka Buddhist shrine ) and a Zen Garden situated behind , full of bonsai trees and azalea . Throughout the garden are statue , like this Buddha .
