
Greenspan explained how he created this miniature version of the San Francisco Botanical Garden, complete with Chilean, South African, and Mediterranean sections, as well as a "Fog and Wind Garden," and a "Cloud Forest." The monkey puzzle trees. He tells Hoodline it drew him up to the park immediately and to speak with landscape architect Adam Greenspan, who led the design for the park. And local tree expert Mike Sullivan, author of the guidebook The Trees of San Francisco, says he realized "there was something special going on" up in Salesforce Park when he spotted a monkey puzzle tree from the street.


The building and park reopened last month, complete with the gondola/funicular thing that was not operating last year when the Transit Center originally opened. Salesforce Park at the Salesforce Transit Center), you now have the chance to do so again.

If you haven't yet gotten the chance to explore the expansive collection of trees and plants on the rooftop of the Transbay Transit Center (a.k.a.
