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May 5, 2009 |
The two RV Gypsies visited a garden in San Francisco, California and were amazed by The Living Roof at the California Academy of Sciences. |
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The Living Roof - California
Academy of Sciences |
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 Assembling a 197,000-square-foot rooftop
to accommodate a living tapestry of native plant species is challenging
enough. Add to that the technical problems posed by the roof's extreme
dips and slopes. How to keep the plants and soil from sliding off? Rana
Creek, who worked with Piano to design the roof, developed and patented
a solution called the BioTray®. They used 50,000 porous, biodegradable
trays made from tree sap and coconut husks as containers for the vegetation.
These trays line the rooftop like tile, yet enable the roots to grow and
interlock, binding the trays together like patchwork. |
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| The Living Roof´s 1.7 million native plants were specially chosen to flourish in Golden Gate Park´s climate. After experimenting with thirty native species, the finalists were all able to self-propagate. They will thrive with little water, resist the salt spray from ocean air, and tolerate wind. The roof will provide habitat for a wide variety of wildlife. A future project will seek to introduce the endangered San Bruno Elfin Butterfly and the Bay Checkerspot Butterfly to this new habitat. | |
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Notice
that there are people on top of the roof in the photos above. |
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a visit to a gardens in
San Francisco |
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF ALOE |
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Menu for the two RV Gypsies
in California - April 2009 |
California photos are in 28 separate sections found below. Some sections may have more than one page so that the photos will upload faster. You may visit these sections in any order you choose. Each section will have this menu so that visitors do not have to keep returning here in order to continue the California adventures. There is also a link to Oregon at the very bottom of the California menu. |
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Kaweah Park Resort and a bobcat |
Three Rivers and Lake Kaweah |
driving scenery |
Sequoia National Park (3 pages) |
Kings Canyon |
Yosemite Nat'l Park |
El Capitan |
Bridalveil and Yosemite Falls |
Indian Flat RV Park |
The Living Roof
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