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Botanical Garden San Francisco,California
A botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education. [from wikipedia]
Flower Piano Flowers Garden Great Blue Heron Lake Signs Squirrel
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Great Blue Heron, The Botanical Garden, San Francisco, California

Notable features of great blue herons include slaty (gray with a slight azure blue) flight feathers, red-brown thighs, and a paired red-brown and black stripe up the flanks; the neck is rusty-gray, with black and white streaking down the front; the head is paler, with a nearly white face, and a pair of black or slate plumes runs from just above the eye to the back of the head.[from wikipedia]

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Flower Piano, The Botanical Garden, San Francisco, California

Celebration Garden open 4pm-8pm, Performances 6pm - 8pm, Flower Piano Lounge | Pablo Estigarribia. Latin Grammy winner tango pianist, arranger, and composer. With Sumi Lee Quartet, opening.[from botanical garden website]]

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Flowers, Found In The Botanical Garden, San Francisco, California

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). Flowers produce gametophytes, which in flowering plants consist of a few haploid cells which produce gametes.[from wikipedia]

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Garden, The Botanical Garden, San Francisco, California

Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden, which etymologically implies enclosure, often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden.[from wikipedia]

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Lake, Found In The Botanical Garden, San Francisco, California

A lake is a naturally occurring, relatively large body of water localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from the ocean, although, like the much larger oceans, they form part of the Earth's water cycle by serving as large standing pools of storage water. [from wikipedia]

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Signs, Found In The Botanical Garden, San Francisco, California

Signs may be used in exterior spaces or on-premises locations. Signs used on the exterior of a building are often designed to encourage people to enter and on the interior to encourage people to explore the environment and participate in all that the space has to offer. Any given sign may perform multiple roles simultaneously. For example, signage may provide information, but may also serve to assist customers navigate their way through a complex service or retail environment.[from wikipedia]

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Squirrel, Found In The Botanical Garden, San Francisco, California

Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents. The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels (including chipmunks and prairie dogs, among others), and flying squirrels. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and were introduced by humans to Australia.[from wikipedia]


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