Trellis Spotting in Oakland

Back in the San Francisco Bay Area, I found a great trellis at the recently-constructed Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland. From the street, the large-scale trellis provides an attractive screen for the parking garage. It is fabricated with heavy industrial wire, and provides a frame for climbing plants.

Backside of a trellis in Oakland

I was intrigued to study the double-wire construction and the drip-irrigated planting boxes from the parking-garage side.

Double-wire trellis provides a sturdy frame

This is a great idea, and helps soften and humanize a very busy section of Oakland, both from the street and from the parking garage (as you walk to or return from the doctor or lab). It may help relieve stress on both sides of the trellis. I have reported on Kaiser before, and applaud their innovative landscaping (See Kaiser Meditation Garden in Pleasanton).