Do you really have
40 rare palm trees?
On a standard San Francisco lot (25 x 75 feet, or 175 square meters), this small garden is a botanic adventure, queer refuge, and the product of time and friendship. The co-creators of the garden and this website include palm tree expert Jason Dewees, landscape photographer Caitlin Atkinson, landscape designer Beth Mullins, and gardener Jared Braiterman.
Our goal is to inspire other gardeners and everyone who wants to live with plants.
Reclaimed from concrete in San Francisco’s Mint Hill, palms are now found in the sidewalk, side gate area, light wells, and back garden. Packed between buildings and shaded by the neighbors’ mature trees, the garden started in 2000 with a dump truck-load of bay mud compost, and hard-to-find seedlings acquired and cared for by Jason.
From focal point to ground cover, palms provide many functions in the garden. Cold hardy, often high altitude and subtropical, palms from around the world thrive in this San Francisco garden. After 20 years, some of these palms now stand more than 5 meters tall, while others barely graze the knee.
