Visit 11/21/2024
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ November 2024
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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ November 2024
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TIME: 11:00am
DATE: November 21, 2024
TEMP: 60 degrees
WEATHER: in between rains, windy
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 15 mph wind from the SW
SOIL MOISTURE: wet thanks to the rain!
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: poppy, eriogonum nudum
WEED SIGHTINGS: clover is starting to come up with a vengence
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: not much this week
HUMAN ACTIVITY: just me and Evita
GENERAL NOTES: the rains have flattened the grasses of last season, revealing rocky soils and new plant life. we planted 18 stipa pulchra plugs and with these rains hopefully they will take hold! only time will tell
DATE: November 21, 2024
TEMP: 60 degrees
WEATHER: in between rains, windy
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 15 mph wind from the SW
SOIL MOISTURE: wet thanks to the rain!
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: poppy, eriogonum nudum
WEED SIGHTINGS: clover is starting to come up with a vengence
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: not much this week
HUMAN ACTIVITY: just me and Evita
GENERAL NOTES: the rains have flattened the grasses of last season, revealing rocky soils and new plant life. we planted 18 stipa pulchra plugs and with these rains hopefully they will take hold! only time will tell
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South Hill Plot
Visit 5/22/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ May 2024
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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ May 2024
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South Hill Plot
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![A new weed in the south plot? or is it native dandelion?]()
![North Pine Plot]()
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![Yellow Mariposa Lilly, Calchortus luteus]()
![Big holes in Pine plot and East Bluff Plot]()
![East Bluff Plot]()
![Blue Dicks going to seed, Ladybugs pupating in the flower husks!]()
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![Desert Parsley in the DeHaro Street area of Starr King]()
![Some kind of Clarkia, seen throughout Starr King]()
Visit 5/17/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ May 2024
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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ May 2024
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TIME: 11:30 am
DATE: May 17, 2024
TEMP: 58 degrees
WEATHER: feels much warmer than it is
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 6.1 mph wind from the NE
SOIL MOISTURE: drydrydry
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: usual suspects and some new calochortus which is exciting
WEED SIGHTINGS: lots of vetch and mallow per usual. Do we keep noting Vetch as a weed?
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: bees and a coyote
HUMAN ACTIVITY: just Alain and I
GENERAL NOTES: dry and tawny, exciting to see new growth pop up
DATE: May 17, 2024
TEMP: 58 degrees
WEATHER: feels much warmer than it is
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 6.1 mph wind from the NE
SOIL MOISTURE: drydrydry
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: usual suspects and some new calochortus which is exciting
WEED SIGHTINGS: lots of vetch and mallow per usual. Do we keep noting Vetch as a weed?
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: bees and a coyote
HUMAN ACTIVITY: just Alain and I
GENERAL NOTES: dry and tawny, exciting to see new growth pop up
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South Hill Plot
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East Bluff Plot
CALOCHORTUS
coyote friend with red eyes? we escaped unscathed
big ol mallow
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: 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 4/25/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ April 2024
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San Francisco TEST PLOT/ April 2024
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South Hill Plot
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East Bluff Plot
From top left: Unidentified brome, a representative tangle, birds-eye gilia, is it a calochortus? (north pine plot), soaproot and buckwheat near south hill plot, lupine sp in south hill plot, bombus on a radish, dot seed plantain in north pine plot