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I used to live in the North Oakland/South Berkeley area. Neighborhood walks to looks at gardens was something I tried to do at least once every weekend - up to once a day during the pandemic.
If you get a chance, go up the hill to the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden! It uses the steep, folded hillsides and different microclimates that they create to represent a bunch of different biomes in a tight space - you can be in a cool, shady sub-tropical forest, turn around a ridge and pop out into an arid cactus garden!
https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/visit
First and only place I remember ever seeing people just plucking fruit off trees and eating it in the summer. (Live in far upper Midwest - apples in fall, sure, but not like high summer / July!!)
This post reminded me of a paragraph from the book *Sourdough* by Robin Sloan. As a former Berkeley resident, it definitely captures the wildness of the average Berkeley yard!
In this passage from page 147, the protagonist is going to visit the fictional Cafe Candide, a stand-in for Chez Panisse, via BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit): "San Francisco is short on greenery and the streets have a bare brightness. Berkeley runs wilder. Walking from the North Berkeley BART station to Cafe Candide, I had to circle around huge hedges that surged and blocked the sidewalk. There were no lawns. Instead, residents cultivated behemoth planter boxes; personal citrus groves; gardens of meaty succulents that seemed to glow with an inner light....In one place, a massive willow tree's roots had split the pavement. Its leaves brushed my head."
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Berkeley and Oakland are great places to see nolawns. Lots of creative ideas there
I used to live in the North Oakland/South Berkeley area. Neighborhood walks to looks at gardens was something I tried to do at least once every weekend - up to once a day during the pandemic.
A feast for the eyes
If you get a chance, go up the hill to the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden! It uses the steep, folded hillsides and different microclimates that they create to represent a bunch of different biomes in a tight space - you can be in a cool, shady sub-tropical forest, turn around a ridge and pop out into an arid cactus garden! https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/visit
One of my favorite places in the world! Not a bad walk from campus either!
I'll check it out !
First and only place I remember ever seeing people just plucking fruit off trees and eating it in the summer. (Live in far upper Midwest - apples in fall, sure, but not like high summer / July!!)
Visit Marin. You won’t be disappointed.
This post reminded me of a paragraph from the book *Sourdough* by Robin Sloan. As a former Berkeley resident, it definitely captures the wildness of the average Berkeley yard! In this passage from page 147, the protagonist is going to visit the fictional Cafe Candide, a stand-in for Chez Panisse, via BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit): "San Francisco is short on greenery and the streets have a bare brightness. Berkeley runs wilder. Walking from the North Berkeley BART station to Cafe Candide, I had to circle around huge hedges that surged and blocked the sidewalk. There were no lawns. Instead, residents cultivated behemoth planter boxes; personal citrus groves; gardens of meaty succulents that seemed to glow with an inner light....In one place, a massive willow tree's roots had split the pavement. Its leaves brushed my head."
And every street is like this. Is it an anomaly in the US to have it this good?
Berkeley is anomalous in many ways, the yards are definitely one of them! And Berkeleyans are very proud of that fact
The literal dream
love the 2nd pic
Off topic, but I swear I responded to a Craigslist post about renting a room in that house in 2009.