{"id":43310,"date":"2013-07-03T02:15:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T06:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=43310"},"modified":"2013-07-03T02:15:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T06:15:51","slug":"garden-bloggers-fling-2013-organic-mechanics-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=43310","title":{"rendered":"Garden Bloggers Fling 2013; Organic Mechanics Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><br \/>\nThe first garden on <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenbloggersfling.blogspot.com\/p\/blog-page_10.html\">Friday<\/a> was created in the courtyard between two apartment buildings originally gifted to twin sisters by their father in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/organicmechanics.com\/ORGANIC_MECHANICS\/Salutations.html\">Organic Mechanics<\/a>, James Pettigrew and Sean Stout, see opportunity where others see only a dead zone of concrete and a few pittosporum.  Now it&#8217;s a lush urban sanctuary brimming with salvaged and repurposed treasures, a transformed community space enjoyed by all the residents.  (Organic Mechanics was also responsible for the gigantic walk-in succulent cube that was the toast of the <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=2155\">San Francisco Flower and Garden Show<\/a> a few years ago.)  I&#8217;m guessing there&#8217;s something in the coastal fog that gets the creative synapses firing among Bay Area designers, just as it sends the mighty redwoods soaring taller than any other trees.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016173.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016173.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016244.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016244.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under your feet is no ordinary paving<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016241.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016241.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marble salvage from a local tombstone sculptor also finds its way here<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016205.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016205.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016223.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016223.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016226.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016226.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016200.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The courtyard had a wonderful collection of plants, like this Yucca rostrata<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016199.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016199.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m officially on the hunt now for this gorgeous compact shrub, Leucadendron linifolium<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016183.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016183.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Agave ovatifolia<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016181.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016181.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like Leucadendron argenteum to me, but I overheard discussion that this might be a banksia<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016189.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016189.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016185.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016185.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/P1016190.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1016190.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/fling2013\/628x471.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 628x471.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/homeandgarden\/thedirt\/article\/Expect-Organic-Mechanics-to-sprout-Open-Days-magic-2371843.php#photo-1899521\">SFGate<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Not only was this garden a visual feast, but we were also serenaded by the raspy warblings of Simon, the 25-year-old Yellow Nape Amazon Parrot.<br \/>\nA wonderful beginning to the 2013 Garden Bloggers Fling.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first garden on Friday was created in the courtyard between two apartment buildings originally gifted to twin sisters by their father in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. 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