The Daily Dig

This past Sunday I saw on the CalBerkeley Botanical Garden fan page on facebook, this bamboo structure being installed by a natural building materials class from Merritt College and at that moment I knew where I would be spending the first part of my morning. The structure is very cool, and being hand made gives it an even more special quality, and would recommend that if you have the chance to stop by the botanical garden to stand in and around it to do so. Not sure how long it will be up on display but I bet it will be in for the better part of the summer.

Approaching from the front gate

 

Inside

 

Here you can see how the bamboo is being held together

 

Looking back across the structure

 

Looks like a simple 18 guage wire is all that is holding it together

 

Its like weaving but on a differnt scale

 

Amaryllidaceae Crinum Bulbispermum, South Africa

 

Amaryllidaceae Crinum Bulbispermum, South Africa

 

Amaryllidaceae Crinum Bulbispermum, South Africa

 

Amaryllidaceae Crinum Bulbispermum, South Africa

 

Agavaceae Agave SP. , Sonora State, Mexico

 

Liliaceae Blue Squill Merwilla Plumbea, South Africa

 

Liliaceae Blue Squill Merwilla Plumbea, South Africa

 

Liliaceae Blue Squill Merwilla Plumbea, South Africa

 

Liliaceae Spiral Aloe Aloe Polyphylla, South Africa

 

Liliaceae Spiral Aloe Aloe Polyphylla, South Africa

 

Ericaceae Rhododendron Decorum Subsection Fortunea , Burma and China

 

Ericaceae Rhododendron Decorum Subsection Fortunea , Burma and China

 

Couldn't find the name of this Lily

 

Liliaceae Poor Knight's Lily Xeronema Calllistemon, Island off the E. Coast of North Auckland, New Zeland

 

From another angle

 

The Med Garden

 

Liliaceae - Asphodel Asphodelus Albus, France

 

Liliaceae - Asphodel Asphodelus Albus, France

 

 

The view of the bay from one of my favorite benches

 

You can see the golden gate in this one

 

Lamiaceae Nepeta Curviflora, Israel

 

Lamiaceae Nepeta Curviflora, Israel

 

Lamiaceae Salvia Indica Israel

 

 

 

The Rose Garden

 

 

Rosaceae Bourbon Rose Rosa x Borboniana CV. Queen of Bourbons - Hort. 1834

 

 

 

 

Thousands of buds... this is going to be CRAZY!

 

ALSTROEMERIACEAE PERUVIAN - LILY ALSTROEMERIA SP. - CONCEPCION PROV., CHILE

 

ALSTROEMERIACEAE PERUVIAN - LILY ALSTROEMERIA SP. - CONCEPCION PROV., CHILE

 

BROMELIACEAE PUYA SP. - TALCA PROV., CHILE

 

BROMELIACEAE PUYA SP. - TALCA PROV., CHILE

 

Flower of  BROMELIACEAE PUYA SP. - TALCA PROV., CHILE

 

Amazing shade of purple

 

BROMELIACEAE  PUYA BERTEROANA - NUBLE PROV., CHILE

 

 

 

 

Setting more bud

 

 

 

BROMELIACEAE  CHAGUAL PUYA BERTENDNIANA  - TALCA PROVENCE., CHILE
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YERBA MANSA ANEMOPSIS CALIFORNICA, E OF BANNER, SAN DIEGO CA.

 

California Poppy

 

Busy Bees

 

And back out the gate.

 

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