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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ April 2024
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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ April 2024
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TIME: 4:30pm
DATE: May 8, 2024
TEMP: 77 degrees
WEATHER: humid heat, but not a cloud in the sky
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): breeze coming from NW, it is welcomed
SOIL MOISTURE: dry!
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: a couple of new lupine, dot plantain, poppies, artemisia californica, sticky monkey flower
WEED SIGHTINGS: all of the ones we’ve been seeing, plus dandelion
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: scrub jays, bees on the clover, evidence of gophers from their holes, yellow swallowtail butterfly
HUMAN ACTIVITY: mainly the sounds of kids in the school yard, no one has passed through the annex except me
GENERAL NOTES: it is so dry all of a sudden! vetch appears to be making a come back in the east bluff plot after we gave the grasses a haircut last week. weeds have reappeared in the south hill plot. TALL grasses in the north pine plot. everything is tawny except for the vetch and the natives. it feels like summer already.
DATE: May 8, 2024
TEMP: 77 degrees
WEATHER: humid heat, but not a cloud in the sky
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): breeze coming from NW, it is welcomed
SOIL MOISTURE: dry!
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: a couple of new lupine, dot plantain, poppies, artemisia californica, sticky monkey flower
WEED SIGHTINGS: all of the ones we’ve been seeing, plus dandelion
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: scrub jays, bees on the clover, evidence of gophers from their holes, yellow swallowtail butterfly
HUMAN ACTIVITY: mainly the sounds of kids in the school yard, no one has passed through the annex except me
GENERAL NOTES: it is so dry all of a sudden! vetch appears to be making a come back in the east bluff plot after we gave the grasses a haircut last week. weeds have reappeared in the south hill plot. TALL grasses in the north pine plot. everything is tawny except for the vetch and the natives. it feels like summer already.
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South Hill Plot
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East Bluff Plot
gopher holes
coyotes???
LUPINUS SUCCULENTUS!
Visit 4/19/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ April 2024
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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ April 2024
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TIME: 11:05 pm
DATE: April 19, 2024
TEMP: 55 degrees
WEATHER: Cloudy with a little sun
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 7.1 mph to the northeast
SOIL MOISTURE: not dry not wet
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: poppy, lupine, sticky monkey flower
WEED SIGHTINGS: hoary mustard (?), wild radish, mallow, common milk thistle
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: a hawk and something burrowing in the ground
HUMAN ACTIVITY: just me!
GENERAL NOTES: Crazy how much clover there is under the pine tree compared to the rest of the site. Everything is blooming, so it’s clearer what plants are better suited for which parts of the park.
DATE: April 19, 2024
TEMP: 55 degrees
WEATHER: Cloudy with a little sun
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 7.1 mph to the northeast
SOIL MOISTURE: not dry not wet
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: poppy, lupine, sticky monkey flower
WEED SIGHTINGS: hoary mustard (?), wild radish, mallow, common milk thistle
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: a hawk and something burrowing in the ground
HUMAN ACTIVITY: just me!
GENERAL NOTES: Crazy how much clover there is under the pine tree compared to the rest of the site. Everything is blooming, so it’s clearer what plants are better suited for which parts of the park.
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South Hill Plot![]()
East Bluff Plot
Wild Radish
Hawk!!
Sticky Monkey Flower
Visit 3/22/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ March 2024
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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ March 2024
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TIME: 1:20 pm
DATE: March 22, 2024
TEMP: 65 degrees
WEATHER: Cloudy with a little sun
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 13.3 mph to the north
SOIL MOISTURE: Still pretty wet from the rains
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: lots of lupine and poppies blooming!
WEED SIGHTINGS: lots of vetch blooming as well as what looks like trifolium hirtum (Rose clover)
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: no one but me
HUMAN ACTIVITY: just me!
GENERAL NOTES: So many blooms!
DATE: March 22, 2024
TEMP: 65 degrees
WEATHER: Cloudy with a little sun
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 13.3 mph to the north
SOIL MOISTURE: Still pretty wet from the rains
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: lots of lupine and poppies blooming!
WEED SIGHTINGS: lots of vetch blooming as well as what looks like trifolium hirtum (Rose clover)
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: no one but me
HUMAN ACTIVITY: just me!
GENERAL NOTES: So many blooms!
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South Hill Plot
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East Bluff Plot
Lupines
Vetches
Rose Clover (Trifolium hirtum)
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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ February 2024
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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ February 2024
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South Hill Plot
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East Bluff Plot
Poppies
Lupines
Tall grasses almost buried our flags.
Wall Barley (Hordeum murinum)
Wild Oat (Avena fatua)
Lots of vetches
Rose Clover (Trifolium hirtum)
Wild Radish (Raphanus sativus)
Acacia melanoxylon
Visit 2/22/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ February 2024
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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ February 2024
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TIME: 11:15 am
DATE: February 22, 2024
TEMP: 50 degrees but feels warmer
WEATHER: Sunny with almost no clouds
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 3mph from the East
SOIL MOISTURE: Very moist; it’s been raining most of the week
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: Lupine and Poppies, both are starting to bloom on the South Hill Plot
WEED SIGHTINGS: Oxalis, Vetch, Mallow, some kind of grass with an interior red blade
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: Bees and butterflies
HUMAN ACTIVITY: Loud noise from roofers on the residential street nearby
GENERAL NOTES: It seems like there’s more growth of poppy and lupine at the south hill plot.
DATE: February 22, 2024
TEMP: 50 degrees but feels warmer
WEATHER: Sunny with almost no clouds
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 3mph from the East
SOIL MOISTURE: Very moist; it’s been raining most of the week
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: Lupine and Poppies, both are starting to bloom on the South Hill Plot
WEED SIGHTINGS: Oxalis, Vetch, Mallow, some kind of grass with an interior red blade
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: Bees and butterflies
HUMAN ACTIVITY: Loud noise from roofers on the residential street nearby
GENERAL NOTES: It seems like there’s more growth of poppy and lupine at the south hill plot.
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South Hill Plot
North Pine Plot
East Bluff Plot
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