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Jul 28, 2010 1:19 AM CST
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Next we toured the garden of Marcia Donahue, a well known Berkeley sculptor and gardener.
It felt like we stepped into an exotic jungle with lots of tall trees, shrubs and plants of all kinds, creating a dense lush green canopy. Along the side of the Victorian style house, a lush tunnel of bamboo,and other plants, under planted with bowling balls and silverware. Again, on a small city lot.
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Several chickens were wandering around
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These 'bulbs' were her pieces of ceramic art work.
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This is her porch light, which I recognized from one of my favorite garden books by Thomas Hobbs, The Jewel Box Garden.
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