The Botanical Gardens of Golden Gate Park

The Botanical Gardens of Golden Gate Park The botanical gardens of Golden Gate Park specialize in "Mediterranean" Species of plant life. The catch is, the bay area is a Mediterranean climate so Mediterranean plants thrive in its climate. (In fact, it is about the same latitude as northern Italy and Greece). The collection is quite extensive and includes plants from not only California, but the Mediterranean and Chili (I was surprised to learn that parts of Chili were indeed had the same climate as the Mediterranean. ) I took a zillion pictures when I was there, however have only posted a small portion of them.

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Mountain Pond High Mountain Pond
This is a typical mountain pond. With opportunistic water plants all the way up to the edges of the pond. You find this because as the summer gets warmer, these ponds tend to dry out, and you would these plants would find themselves further from the water . So these plants make use of all the water they can. I would suspect those pine trees also have roots taping this pond.

Epiphyte Epiphyte
This branch has a variety of orchids growing on it. Orchids, can live in the ground or suspended from branches as Epiphytes. As epiphytes they get their water from moisture in the air and nutrients from leaves falling down from the canopy. An epiphyte is a plant growing, mutualisticly, in a tree or otherwise out of the ground.

California Natives California Natives
This picture has a variety of California Native plants. Scenes like this appear in various parts of California where you have sparse populations of drought resistant plants popping up in very arid places.

Another Pond Another Pond
This pond is much like the pond in the first picture, though the water level is a bit lower.

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Mountain Pond		High Mountain Pond This is a typical mountain pond. With opportunistic water plants all the way up to the edges of the pond. You find this because as the summer gets warmer, these ponds tend to dry out, and you would these plants would find themselves further from the water . So these plants make use of all the water they can. I would suspect those pine trees also have roots taping this pond.
Epiphyte		Epiphyte This branch has a variety of orchids growing on it. Orchids, can live in the ground or suspended from branches as Epiphytes. As epiphytes they get their water from moisture in the air and nutrients from leaves falling down from the canopy. An epiphyte is a plant growing, mutualisticly, in a tree or otherwise out of the ground.
California Natives		California Natives This picture has a variety of California Native plants. Scenes like this appear in various parts of California where you have sparse populations of drought resistant plants popping up in very arid places.
Another Pond		Another Pond This pond is much like the pond in the first picture, though the water level is a bit lower.