Tilden Park Botanical Gardens
The other day Friedhelm and I went to Berkeley Ca. to visit a couple of botanical gardens. The first was located in Tilden Park. The park's focus is on California based plants, many of them rare, and located in a very small range. I shot all of these with my wonderful Tokina 100mm macro. There were a lot of different types of Manzanita. Unfortunately I didn't get the name of this variety. I grew up in a lumber community and manzanita was considered a scourge. You know I like photos of the sun shining through the leaves of a tree. In this case a rare Santa Cruz Ironwood. I was attracted to the shape of the leaves. Not your normal oak or birch. This is a Channel Island Tree Poppy, mostly seen on San Clemente, Santa Catalina, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Isles. And last but not least if a Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat. Go, See, Enjoy and Photograph Dave