A Planting Lexicon

Written by Zahid Sardar

The San Francisco Examiner,  Magazine Section

Sunday, March 7, 1999 Edition

Recently, when garden designers Roger Raiche and Dave McCrory unveiled their garden at the Strybing Arboretum's main gate in Golden Gate Park, they gave an outdoor wing to the adjacent Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture. By planting nearly 60 feet long by 10 feet wide, on each side of the walkway leading to the (sadly concrete gate, with specimens of virtually every plant within the botanical gardens, a get6ng-to-know-you, idea-filled experience that has made this much-ignored gateway unique. Visitors who don't already know the free park contains nearly every species of redwood, and 17 themed gardens over its 55 acres, will at least get a sense of the plants within. Shade plants and New Zealand grasses beside Mediterranean shrubs; plants from find these parts hospitable; bulbs contained in pots and rock gardens, exotic bamboos, orchids and tree ferns can all be viewed up close, name-tagged for ready reference.

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