Thread by @ClaraJeffery

I really love how lots of people in my neighborhood without yards are nonetheless making pollinator and/or rain gardens where and how they can. This one is particularly great

Reminder of one of greatest picture books of last 20 years, by @itspeterbrown

Not sure which of my coworkers left this @xercessociety book on my chair for me, but it is really excellent and easy (unlike a LOT of similar books) to parse

I only hope that the next edition include in its appendixes cumulative sorts that appear with each plant (which pollinators, regions, soil, sun—>shade, etc)

Here's a series of SF DPW videos on creating sidewalk gardens and planting street trees that might be helpful.

Since I went off about two months ago about @sfpublicworks' decision to cut down most of the trees on 24th, here's their explanation (possibly to me?😬). Not many views. Dear Carla Short, I am happy to help spread the word of the good forestry DPW does:

@sfpublicworks Relatedly, we just published a story today about LA's new forest officer. By @Jackie_Flynn_, who shares my passion for urban forestry: motherjones.com/environment/20…

@sfpublicworks @Jackie_Flynn_ If you live in SF, @SFUrbanForester will help you plan and drastically subsidize teaming up with neighbors to install sidewalk gardens and/or street trees. You can also volunteer to help plant for such projects elsewhere in city: fuf.net/programs-servi…

Here’s another that just popped up

Supermarket parking lot getting in on the act