Top photos of this blog's first decade!
I noticed recently that this blog just had a 10 year anniversary - my first post was August 30, 2013. I scrolled through the decade of posts, and found some photos that made me smile. Here are my top sftrees.com photos from the last 10 years:
Spotted gum (Corymbia maculata) adjacent to the Mission Pool at 19th Street between Guererro and Valencia. What a spectacular tree!
The largest Monterey cypress in the country! That’s me under the tree - In March 2021 I did a pilgrimage to see this amazing tree. It’s located at 751 Pescadero Creek Road in Pescadero - about 8 miles inland from Highway 1.
May 2020 - Jason Dewees (left), Richard Turner (right) and me on our Potrero Hill tour, next to a purple smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’). That’s a box of chalk in my hand. This was in the depths of the pandemic, so we were doing our chalk tree tours with masks.
The yellow-blooming New Zealand Christmas tree (Metrosideros excelsa) at 1221 Stanyan Street. My favorite individual tree in San Francisco.
A silk oak leaf on the sidewalk at 3520 18th/Valencia in the Mission
A red flowering gum (Corymbia ficifolia) on Monterey Boulevard in St. Francisco Woods. I love this species in San Francisco more than any other. Why is the City restricting the planting of this tree??!
Garage on Grove Street in the NOPA neighborhood
A stately wine palm (Jubaea chilensis) at the Sunnyside Conservatory on Monterey Boulevard. It takes a LONG time for this palm species to get this tall.
And another palm - this time a Mexican fan palm (Washingtonia robusta) in MissionBay
A doodle, courtesy of Jason Dewees
The California buckeye (Aesculus californica) at 2694 McAllister/Willard Street - largest and probably oldest of its species in San Francisco. Sadly, this tree died over the 2022/2023 winter. Here it is in glorious bloom in June 2020.
A dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) in the Arnold Arboretum in Boston in August 2021 - that’s my sister Patricia under the tree for scale. The Arnold Arboretum organized the effort to bring seeds back from China after the tree was discovered in the 1940s, and this tree was planted in 1948 when the seeds arrived. This is the largest one in the arboretum, and since their trees were planted first, it may be the largest dawn redwood in the United States!
sidewalk imprint of a London plane leaf on Page Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood
California buckeye (Aesculus californica) on Poppy Lane in Glen Park
tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) at the corner of Kearny and Vallejo on Telegraph Hill
gold medallion tree (Cassia leptophylla) at 227 Cole in the NOPA neighborhood. This one is the “City Champion” - biggest of the species in San Francisco
Beautiful garage door artwork at 523 Precita near Precita Park (the owner is the artist!)
Monterey pine (Pinus radiata) at 214 Santa Clara Avenue. This specimen is the largest in the Western Hemisphere!
My husband and I took a trip to Sicily in April 2022 - this is a Moreton bay fig (Ficus macrophylla v. columnaris) in the Palermo botanical gardeny. That’s me standing behind one of the buttressing roots of the tree.
a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua) in a field in Sicily
a silk floss tree (Ceiba speciosa) in Prospect Park in the Dogpatch neighborhood
a lonely volunteer California poppy in a San Francisco sidewalk
Row of Victorians off Page Street in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood
and just down the street on Page, Spiral aloe (Aloe polyphylla) at 1124 Page Street
the four of us! Jason Dewees, Sairus Patell, Mike Sullivan and Richard Turner
a lovely Guadalupe palm (Brahea edulis) at 333 Sussex Street in Glen Park
take a rock in Telegraph Hill!