Park News Feb 13 2026
Love the Earth Tomorrow Bob Huttar, Chavez Park Conservancy Restoration Coordinator, writes: Thanks to everyone that came out on MLK
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Wild Radish
Park News 5/2/2025
Extreme Tides The moon and the sun combined to produce extreme tides in the last week of April. High tides
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Park News 4/20/2025
Now the Grackle! It was just a matter of time. The Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) has been moving steadily north
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Park Week 5/3/2024
Gas Meeting at the Yacht Club The City’s Public Works Department held an informational meeting about landfill gas under Chavez
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Park Week 4/26/2024
See You at the Fair Tomorrow, Saturday April 27, is the day of the Bay Fair at the Berkeley Waterfront.
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Park Week 7/7/23
Snowy With a Bad Leg This Snowy Egret used its wings more than it normally would because its right leg
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Park Week 6/23/23
Water & Weed Natives on Sunday With all the dry and often sunny weather we’ve been having, it’s time to
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Park Week 5/19/23
Birds: Female Cameo At least one female showed up in the Red-winged Blackbird breeding area on Sunday May 14. She
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Bug Day (23)
It’s been almost a year since our last Bug Day. For shame! Here we try to catch up, starting with
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Now in Bloom
Just a sample of what’s now in bloom in the park. Not shown, the “Bermuda buttercup” (Oxalis pes-caprae), which you
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Now Blooming
With April underway, more plants have cast the hesitations of winter aside and stepped out into full bloom. Left column,
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Little Burnt Oak
It may seem trivial to worry about fire damage to one little oak tree in the park when historic wildfires
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March Bloomers
This is a selective view. I purposely left out the sourgrass (Oxalis pes caprae). If you have any kind of
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Flora Friday: Plants Revisited
The Oregon Gumplant, aka Gumweed, scientifically known as Grindelia stricta, is blooming again near the northwest corner of the park,
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Radish Lover
The Wild Radish plants in many spots in the park have begun to set fruit. The young fruits are long,
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Weeds in Bloom
At Cesar Chavez Park over time one learns to appreciate little sparks of beauty regardless of their source. Even unwanted,
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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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Now Blooming More than Ever: Wild Radish
The radish is running wild again all over the park. Raphanus raphanistrum, edible, favors disturbed and neglected areas, which describes
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Summertime, and the Fennel is High
I’ve been saying it for a long time, and Exploratorium teacher Tory Brady said it also at the recent solstice
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A plant for your hot dog?
We have wild radish in the park, also fennel, why not wild mustard? In the spring and summer the park has tons
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Radish running wild in the park
These weedy-looking plants with white/yellow/purple blossoms are probably the most plentiful flowering species in the park. They’re found in just
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Seen in the Park
Wildflowers are few in the park, so every stand of them (no matter how humble) attracts admirers. Here two young
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