{"id":11,"date":"2007-11-24T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T18:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/alcatraz-flowers-beauty-among-anguish.html"},"modified":"2007-11-24T13:40:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T18:40:43","slug":"alcatraz-flowers-beauty-among-anguish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/alcatraz-flowers-beauty-among-anguish.html","title":{"rendered":"Alcatraz Flowers &#8211; Beauty among Anguish&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"2e5142c0289a1f785cf2dcce097231a4\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6725039255769208\";\r\n\/* Reno Hotels Leaderboard *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0584775893\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"283\" src=\"http:\/\/sanfranciscovisitor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/alcatraz-flowers-gardens.jpg\" alt=\"Alcatraz Flowers - San Francisco\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Alcatraz is one of San Francisco&#8217;s most popular attractions &#8211; with over 1.3 million visitors per year to the island&#8217;s former prison.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the occupants of <a href=\"http:\/\/sftodo.com\/alcatraz_island.htm\">Alcatraz <\/a>have another &#8211; more beautiful history &#8211; of working to landscape the island&#8217;s rocky cliffs.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Since the <a href=\"http:\/\/sftodo.com\/Alcatraz1800.html\">1800&#8217;s<\/a> &#8211; plants have grown on Alcatraz.&nbsp;&nbsp; During its life as a military prison and a federal penitentiary for the &quot;worst criminals in the USA&quot; &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sftodo.com\/flowers-in-san-francisco.html\">flowers <\/a>continued to grow.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the 1960&#8217;s &#8211; when the prison closed &#8211; the garden tenders left too.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Until 2003, when the Garden Conservancy; National Park Service; and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy banded together to bring the flowers back.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Landscaper Carola Ashford is devoted to the island&#8217;s garden restoration.&nbsp;&nbsp; She found the island overgrown in ivy and blackberry bushes.&nbsp; With Carola&#8217;s team&#8217;s work &#8211; the incredible dormant gardens began to return.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Other gardeners at Alcatraz are famous (and notorious).&nbsp; Freddie Reichel was the secretary to the warden in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sftodo.com\/Alcatraz1900-1950.html\">1940&#8217;s<\/a>.&nbsp; Freddie strove to find plants that could survive the harsh wind and fog of Alcatraz.&nbsp;&nbsp; Planting bush poppies, succulents, and blue-flowered price of Madeira &#8211; Freddie created some of the most amazing gardens on the island.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Elliott Michener was a convicted counterfeiter who created amazing terraced plantings; birdbaths; and greenhouses.&nbsp;&nbsp; Michener&#8217;s gardens are one of the focuses of restoration today.&nbsp; The gardens provided solace to Michener during his imprisonment and hope to provide that comfort today.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; 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