We got to the city early yesterday for dinner so we stopped by the San Francisco Hall of Flowers. What a beautiful place!!
There goes Tom trying to get in before they close the doors.
Beautiful San Francisco! Brugs gone wild!
It had just closed so we took a walk around the outside.
We peered into this end room.
Just incredible. This is taken thru the window.
And though I was screaming let me in! Let me in, they wouldn't! We could see a big dahlia garden off to the side so we headed that way.
The dahlia garden was surrounded by a cactus and agave garden. It was amazing.
It went on forever.
I must have seen over 100 huge agave, all kinds.
As you walk along the cactus garden, it morphs into a strip of leftover dahlias and some canna. The entire backdrop to it is a wall of a sanguinea type brug.
I couldn't get close to get a good picture so I hiked up the hill and went behind trying to get close. What an amazing place.
But as I hiked around the huge planting, they had 2 more huge brug trees along the way. These were yellow.
Very Beautiful!
One of the yellow brugs was a spider brug. I do not remember seeing this one before anywhere. My Whiskers didn't have such spider tendrils. Does yours?
Poor Tom, I was a lady on a mission!! I wanted a close up of the sang type flower. I got way up and behind but I just couldn't get close enough. I wanted to stay on the paths and not trample any plants.
But you can see the flowers better in this one.
This is the Hall of Flowers from the back and side. Doesn't it look like a castle?
I can't remember the name of these. They had them all over and they all had huge flower stalks next to them. The flowers come up along side of the plant, they must be connected underground. So neat.
That is Tom hiding.
WOW Kell, great shots. That would be worth another trip, earlier in the day.
And here we are descending from the hill and looking down at the dahlia garden. What a sight. They had hydrangeas in full flower across from the dahlias. Mine flowered in June. This is how cool the temperature is in San Francisco.
Makes me want to take a trip to San Fransico. That yellow spider brug is a beauty!! Thanks for sharing the pics.
Karen
Here is the Hall of Flowers from the side. It is so huge. And must be so full of goodies. LOL!!!
Bet it smells like heaven in there. When I was in SF a few years ago I saw this place and wonder what it was. It is truly a beautiful place. Thanks for the pictures. Does Tom like plants and flowers or does he just go along for survival purposes?
Excellent photos Kell.
Now I feel as if I have visited The Hall of Flowers!
I really like the yellow spider brug and the sangs are so huge! YOU must have had a fun time. Poor Tom...LOL
Not really... Tom must have had an excellent time also. Bet the entire time he was wondering what you were going put on your wish list though...LOL
Thanks for sharing your visit to the hall of flowers.
Thanks Vicki and Karen. It is definitely worth a trip. Why I haven't gone since it reopened, I have no clue!!
Linda, we had such incredible sushi last night. We have a new sushi place and we are in honeymoon behavior with the sushi chef. He is making us such incredible treats wooing us. We decided to go back today.
We will go to the Ferry Building for lunch to have oysters at Hog Island and then to the Hall of Flowers to really get a good look all afternoon. Then mosey on over to the sushi place to get the first seats at the bar.
I usually am too busy taking care of all my plants, to have fun like this but my husband has been expressing unhappiness lately. We are at the age where we better start having more fun while we can.
And the last look at the dahlias!!
Simply fabulous photos, Kell! What a beautiful place to visit. Thanks for posting the pictures. I only wonder if you left a comment card telling them they needed more pink!
Great pictures kell, and I bet you would have camped there till morning if Tom hadn't thrown you in the car *LOL*
Doris
Wish we had places like that in San Antonio. Our botanical center has really gone downhill in the past few years. I can remember when I was much younger coming to SA to visit an aunt and uncle and visiting the gardens and they were beautiful. Now they are rather sad looking.
Thanks for such a lovely tour! Beautiful flowers!!
Kell,
Thanks for the beautiful photos of and around the Hall of Flowers. It's been years since I've seen it. It made my poor heart go pitty-pat. That yellow Brug was gorgeous. I don't remember seeing Brugmansias before the grounds were renovated.
Minigrannie, It took years and years to renovate the Hall of Flowers as well as the surrounding gardens. Many plants had overgrown their boundries. Eucaplytus had taken over many spots. I remember a storm that did considerable damage to the conservatory itself. That was years ago. Golden Gate Park itself was looking rather ratty when the city of San Francisco decided to fix it up. It took so many years to fix the conservatory that we quit going back to check on the progress. Then we moved.
It's good to see the old lady looking so grand again.
Veronica
Kell what great pictures beautiful it would been nice if would been some brugs with seed pods?? no can't do that.. sorry... but ... much happiness to you both....blessings.
Twyla
Stunning, Kell, just stunning.....
A Paradise.....
It is very beautiful.
Twyla, I looked, no seedpods. LOL Not that I would ever take them! LOL
Glad you all liked it. Sadly, I got stuck at one of my rented plots that I garden too late in the day so we only had time to go for sushi. Soon we will back.
Veronica, you are so right. We used to go when we were young years ago before it closed for years.
Lordy
we don't ever see anything like that around here
That place is amazing!!!!