UC Botanical Garden. Thanks to the Garden for another year of fun, enjoyment and learning!
This wonderful little building (1920) stands on the UC Berkeley campus right on the edge of Strawberry Creek, among the tall trees. Designed by John Galen Howard and built entirely of redwood.
Now this little gem has been completely renewed and is clad in beautiful, all-new, California redwood.
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Amazingly, those new windows are aluminum-clad.
The original redwood siding remained completely stable for 100 years!! Redwood is an amazing building material. No wonder the original trees of this region were relentlessly cut and utilized over 100 years ago.
from China. At the botanical garden.
Biosciences at UC Berkeley. I’m fond of this one as a great place to sit in comfortable chairs and read!
Normally, there are students sitting at those big tables. This is early morning. I'm seated in one of the v comfortable leather armchairs, 6 of which are located at each end of the space.
A dependable winter bloomer in the Bay Area landscape at this season.
Native to southern Africa.