Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 29 minutes ago

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Spring is the best time to visit Golden Gate Park with its riot of flowers blooming all over from the cherry blossoms at the Japanese Tea Garden, to the magnolias in the Botanical Garden, and the tulips in Queen Wilhelmina Garden. Even the cows in the Bison Paddock have got it bad!

Here -- instead of telling you, let me show you with my Ode to Spring, a titillating and sometimes not-PG haiku to Spring Rites in six parts. This is a bit suggestively racy so if you are sensitive to that type of content, watch with the audio turned off 😂

Japanese Tea Garden
75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr
San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 752-1171
Open 9AM to 6PM every day in Spring & Summer
Open 9AM to 5PM every day in Fall & Winter

San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Auditorium
1199 9th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
(415) 661-1316
Open 7:30AM to 6PM every day in Spring & Summer
Open 7:30AM to 5PM every day in Fall & Winter

John McLaren Memorial Rhododendron Dell
Entrance at John F Kennedy Drive & 36th Street
San Francisco, CA
Open 5AM to midnight daily

National AIDS Memorial Grove
Nancy Pelosi Drive &, Bowling Green Drive
San Francisco, CA 94122
Open 5AM to 10PM daily
(415) 765-0498

Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden
1690 John F Kennedy Drive
San Francisco, CA 94121
(415) 813-1445
Open 24 hours every day

Photo Attributions:
Queen Wilhelmina as a Young Woman by Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Peter Paul Ruben’s Venus & Cupid by Dulwich Picture Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Music Attributions:
Marxist Arrow by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Artist: twinmusicom.org