GARDEN FOR THE BIRDS

Sangati Center, a non-profit space for Indian classical music and artist Amber Hasselbring are teaming up to bring you a sidewalk garden of California native plants. In the garden, you’ll find drought-tolerant plants with flowers, seeds, berries and insects that attract birds. Unlike concrete sidewalks, gardens absorb rainwater that is otherwise processed by the city’s overburdened water treatment system.



Garden List:

• Oregon grape Berberis aquifolium

• sticky monkey flower Mimulus

• deer grass Muhlenbergia rigens

• purple needlegrass Nassella pulchra

• scarlet bugler Penstemon centranthifolius

• coffeeberry Rhamnus californica

• hummingbird sage Salvia spathacea

• native wildflower seed

• bamboo fencing

• river rocks
  
  
  
  

Special thanks to those who made this garden possible:

Deepa Preeti Natarajan, Gautam Tejas Ganeshan of Sangati Center, Andrew McCluskey, Daniel Geer, Raul Leon & David Zaniba, Dara Barnett, Erin O’Brien, Dylan Hayes, Betsy Davis, Lidia Larin-Baranda of Cesar Chavez Elementary School, the Secret Garden & to all the volunteers.

Garden design donated by Lauri Twitchell of UC Berkeley Blake Garden, concrete cutting and removal by Habitat Potential, concrete hauling donated by Sunset Scavenger Co., soil donated by Broadmoor Landscape Supply. Images courtesy of Peter Suchecki, Amber Hasselbring & Emily Simon.

Mission Greenbelt works in partnership with Nature in the City, Kelli Yon of Mission Roots & Jane Martin of PlantSF.

Article by Chris Carlsson in the SF Streetsblog