One tree, found in profusion, is the New Zealand Christmas tree. You can recognize it by its red bottle brush (spiky) flowers. There are many trees from New Zealand and Australia in our neighborhood including the Brisbane box tree, New Zealand tea tree, karo tree, primrose tree and myoporum.
We need electric light for human safety, comfort and health, but lighting up the night sky for amusement or displays should be kept to a minimum. It’s especially important that artificial light be kept to a minimum in our urban parks. At night, our city parks can be oases of dark in the otherwise unrelenting glare of electric light that engulfs most of our City.
New alliance of nonprofit, city, state and educational organizations have pledged to work together to improve the ecological health of San Francisco.
The richest habitat site in the Corridor is a large stairway garden at 15th Avenue and Quintara Street, which neighbors and NTC have cared for since 2008.
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