Foggy Day

AHhhh,Golden Gate Park. Or...those tree's are very Canary Island like. I forget the term for its natural flora.

The trees are mostly Pittosporum undulatum which are endemic to the east coast of Australia; not surprising since we are also plagued by Eucalyptus globulus and Acacia melanoxylon, both imported from the same area.

Not even natives?.I can see where P.undulatum would go wild there. Here,as you know,its a good hedge plant very easy to grow. No summer rains keep them from escaping.

There aren't a lot of endemic plants here, so a lot has been imported and then escaped to run wild (like the rabbit population). I have gone walking in the woods to the south of me, and can see the outlines of terraced walls and small plots where someone put a lot of effort into cleaning the land. But it has been neglected and trees dominate. After a road was built in front of my woods, ferns moved in. Tree ferns I'm ok with, but sword ferns are trying to take over from the land next to mine and I keep fighting them, along with ivy and hedychium (which self seeds very easily - I can't imagine paying $15 for a piece of tuber when I pull up hundreds every year!). July is our driest month with almost no rain, and August looks like California and its brown fields everywhere.