golden gate park: views from the thicket

Please stop by the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at the San Francisco Botanical Garden to see the current exhibit of pastel portraits that I have painted over the past few years o...

https://fromthethicket.com/2019/02/08/tree-portraits-golden-gate-park/

Common Name: Corpse Flower, Titan Arum Family Name: Araceae Native to: Sumatra, Indonesia WHAT TO KNOW Corpse Flower omits a “foul odor of rotting animal flesh” and only blooms for a few days...

https://fromthethicket.com/2018/07/23/corpse-flower-blooms-again-in-the-golden-gate-park-conservatory-of-flowers/

‘Back in the 1960s, when Armando Bernasconi first walked past the three sparkling blue pools tucked away in Golden Gate Park, he thought he had found a swimming spot that just never had any swi...

https://fromthethicket.com/2018/05/14/golden-gate-park-fly-fishing-club-celebrates-85th-anniversary/

If New York can do it, surely we can too!! ‘The campaign for a car-free park has lasted more than half century and involved thousands of people. Today’s historic announcement by Mayor de Blas...

https://fromthethicket.com/2018/04/23/central-park-goes-car-free-forever-on-june-27/

    A recent study, published in the London Evening Standard last week, compared 12 iconic urban parks in the world in terms of the value of the real estate they occupy.  The results:   Golde...

https://fromthethicket.com/2018/03/10/revealed-golden-gate-park-is-the-most-valuable-green-space-in-the-world/

In the past I’ve written on this blog about coyotes in Golden Gate Park, and Janet Kessler’s wonderful photographs of urban coyotes.   Now I’d like to give a shout-out to an exhibit of her...

https://fromthethicket.com/2018/01/26/coyotes-beyond-the-howl-an-educational-exhibit-by-janet-kessler-coyote-yipps/

The sprawling lawns of Golden Gate Park and two major San Francisco golf courses are very thirsty places, and in the coming years, recycled wastewater will satisfy that thirst, thanks to a new tr...

https://fromthethicket.com/2018/01/17/s-f-breaking-ground-on-wastewater-recycling-plant/

    IN THE GALLERY: “Loving Golden Gate Park” An exhibit of art about Golden Gate Park, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.  San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, 647 Ir...

https://fromthethicket.com/2017/10/07/loving-golden-gate-park-san-francisco-women-artists/

In case the clouds part and you want to experience the eclipse in Golden Gate Park, here’s a citizen science project that you can participate in, thanks to the California Academy of Science: �...

https://fromthethicket.com/2017/08/19/solar-eclipse-2017-life-responds-california-academy-of-sciences/

Metson Lake, south-east of the Polo Field, is an out-of-the-way gem in Golden Gate Park.  Built in 1908 and intended as a reservoir to hold irrigation water for the park,   it opened in conjunc...

https://fromthethicket.com/2017/07/21/metson-lake/