Seeds of Beauty
Eight UC Berkeley undergraduates powered your Chavez Park Conservancy’s “Weed and Seed” project Saturday morning October 26, as part of
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California Poppy
Amazing Save
This exceptionally red California Poppy amazingly survived the rip-rap rehab job, so far. With soil torn up above it and
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Flora Friday: More Bloomers
In today’s Flora Friday, we feature more bloomers. At this time, the park is thick with blooming plants. Not all
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Open Circle Area Reopens
The Open Circle art work, including the fresh air classroom and the border walkway, have reopened to the public. The
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Two Early Bloomers
Straying a bit off the paved path today, I happened on what looked to me like the first California Poppy
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What a Little Rain Will Do
The bit of a shower that we had on Thursday night and Friday was just what the dormant plant life
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Poppies in their Glory
We haven’t many poppies in the park, but the few that thrive here can have moments of glory. Here is
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The Missing Poppy Mystery
California poppies set open fields ablaze practically everywhere at this time of year. Everywhere, that is, except in Cesar Chavez
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Common elsewhere – rare here
California poppies are about as common as weeds in many parts of the state, but they’re strangely rare in Cesar
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