Archive for the ‘History’ Category

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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 … Read More

  Posted: July 10th, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Garden, History
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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.

  Sunnyside Conservatory Interpretive Exhibit… Read More

  Posted: July 9th, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Conservatory Building, Garden, History, Restoration, The Friends
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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.… Read More

  Posted: July 9th, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Conservatory Building, Garden, History