Archive for the ‘Garden’ Category
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Audio Tour
One of our projects for 2012–a downloadable MP3 file to enjoy a self-guided audio tour of the Conservatory garden, history, and building.
Featured Post Photo: Dano on Flickr via Creative Commons License.
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Chilean Wine Palm and Historic Palm Grove
from Jason Dewees, The Palm Broker @ Flora Grubb Gardens (November 19, 2009)
Not far from our store, in the Sunnyside neighborhood (near Glen Park), is an extraordinary grove of 100-plus-year-old palms surrounding a historic conservatory-like pavilion. It’s called the Sunnyside Conservatory, and, built in 1898 as a garden structure on a large country estate (before the city engulfed the area), it’s on San Francisco’s list of landmarks.
Most of the palms are Phoenix canariensis, the Canary Island date palm.… Read More
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Workdays
Show the Conservatory some TLC. Under supervision of RPD gardeners, weeding, clean-up. Thanks to observant + loyal Friend Sally Ross for keeping an eye on the weeds and getting our workdays coordinated with RPD. Our next workday is Saturday, August 20, 2011, 9 am – 12 noon.
Featured Project: Conservatory Median Project. Enjoying the eye-candy in front of the Conservatory (200 block of Monterey between Baden + Congo). We are indebted to Friend Andrea O’Leary for the vision and determination… Read More
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Custom Back Gate
Here’s Mary Revelli, Sunnyside resident and metalsmith, standing in front of her one-off custom gate for the back Joost Ave. entrance to the Conservatory. She is pictured with then-Supervisor Mark Leno at the Gate Dedication Ceremony on September 15, 2001. San Francisco Beautiful provided a grant that was matched by Mary’s in-kind donation design and metal smithing.
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Timeline
Here’s a digital version of the historical interpretive board that greets visitors as they pass through the Conservatory’s porte-cochere.
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Oldest Photo of the Conservatory
Look to upper portion of the photograph in the distance–about 1/4 of quarter down from the top edge–and see the oldest known image of octagonal Sunnyside Conservatory (with its original two wings). Just to the left of the Conservatory (in this detail) is Merrall’s original home (now 258 Monterey Boulevard). Our thanks to Greg Gaar for sharing this photograph with us.
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