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Phyte Club: The Extended Version
There are plenty of expensive trips geared for retirees to visit some botanical garden on the other side of the world, but I have yet to find an opportunity to take advantage of my favorite dual...
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Roots and Riffs
How do you find people who love plants and heavy metal? It seems a stupid question – even asking it sort of implies the two are mutually exclusive (they’re not!). Phyte Club is a venue for people who...
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Meadows Proven to Revitalize the Spirit, Improve Romance
The wildflowers in the 3.5 acre California Garden at the SF Botanical Garden are still going off. Though the California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) and yellow and white striped meadowfoam...
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Naked Ladies!
petal power/feminist fury The month of August always reminds me of naked ladies. How could it not? All of the sudden they’ve popped up, cotton candy trumpet blossoms — no shame, no suggestion of...
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Today’s To-Do List: Join the California Native Plant Society
fun schwag packet in the mail doesn't this look like that "ladies sewing circle and terrorist society" sticker of yore? Outstanding among the 50 states, California supports over 5,000 native plant...
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Euc and Mag: A tale of two street trees
There are two trees thriving right now in their four square feet of dirt, and they’re making San Francisco’s sidewalks much more interesting. Both are pretty ubiquitous around the City, both are showy...
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Fennel: Flowery Fractals Fucking Up Fields
The 75,500 acres of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area provide refuge for over 38 rare species, dozens of plant communities, and a shit ton of fennel. Santa Cruz Island, the biggest and...
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I have a boner for Treebones
It was only too appropriate. Atop a rocky butte, in the glare of late afternoon and staring out into the Pacific, a gust of southern wind lifted my one and only Phyte Club trucker hat off my head and...
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Eschscholzia californica/California poppy
from top, clockwise: flower, bud, fruit So what’s going on here? This is one of those classic examples of bud/flower/fruit. Having the opportunity to show three stages of floral development like this...
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These naked ladies got knocked up
even the sex kittens of the floral kingdom.... ....get tired. They used to be so taut and new, so fleshy and fragrant. Their arrival on the scene met with flushed “oooohhhhs,” even the most soulless...
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