Botanical Friday
Japanese maple, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley (11/20/16) Sandy Steinman
Fall color has now descended to see level. See it at the state’s botanical gardens this week.
Erica bauera, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley (11/20/16) Sandy Steinman
Forget-me-not, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley (11/20/16) Sandy Steinman
Erica glandulosa, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley (11/20/16) Sandy Steinman
Bay Area naturalist and color spotter Sandy Steinman visited the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley to find it filled with late blooming South African flowers.
One could almost be convinced that they’re still on a southern hemisphere springtime calendar, from their November blooms. Nah.
Beautyberries, callicarpa mollis, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley (11/20/16) Sandy Steinman
The Botanic garden was also full of irridescent Japanese maples, and our favorite ornaments of the season… Beautyberries.
Japanese maple, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley (11/20/16) Sandy Steinman
Japanese maple, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley (11/20/16) Sandy Steinman
Japanese maple, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley (11/20/16) Sandy Steinman
If you’re going this week, the garden closes at 2 p.m. on Wed. and will be closed on Thanksgiving Day.
But then, for fall color shopping pleasure, it reopens the following day, which we call “Orange Friday” (9 a.m. – 5 p.m.) or should we call it “Botanical Friday,” ’cause it sure ain’t black.
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley – Peak (75-100%) GO NOW!