Join a Ruth Bancroft Garden docent for a colorful spring walk through the garden and you can learn about how you can incorporate natives into your water wise landscape. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, 1552 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, (925) 944-9352.
View event website »Selecting the right plant or combination of plants is one of the keys to success in the garden. We will discuss site conditions, basic design guidelines, plant combinations and other factors. The class will end with a short garden walk to look at some classic plant combinations in the landscape. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, 1552 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, (925) 944-9352.
View event website »When most gardeners use the word ‘succulents,’ they are generally referring to members of the Crassulaceae (stonecrop) family. These wonderful plants (such as Echeveria, Sedum, Aeonium and many more) come in a wide variety of shapes and colors and are an essential element of the water-wise garden. We’ll go over best planting practices, how to make design decisions and dependable selections you can incorporate in your garden right now. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, 1552 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, (925) 944-9352.
View event website »Learn all about Ruth Peterson Bancroft’s life story through the narrative of the Bancroft family’s illustrious legacy in California. Jack Grady O’Neil, RBG docent, will bring Ruth’s history to life set against the backdrop of Hubert Howe Bancroft, his children and their families in early Walnut Creek. His talk will include details of Ruth’s early life and the creation and evolution of the Ruth Bancroft Garden. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, 1552 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, (925) 944-9352.
View event website »Learn all about finding the right tree for your space with Joshua Smith, horticulture instructor at Diablo Valley Community College. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, 1552 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, (925) 944-9352.
View event website »We live and garden in a region where the threat of wildfires is becoming more common. Fire-safe design and fire-resistant plants will make your garden more resilient if the worst does happen. Using the guidelines from numerous local resources, Troy McGregor from Gondwana Flora will walk you through how to design a creative, functional and fire-safe garden using plants found at the Ruth Bancroft Garden. The Ruth Bancroft Garden. 1552 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, (925) 944-9352.
View event website »Suiei Sensei will give a brief history of ikebana and the various forms of ikebana. She will then demonstrate some basic ikebana lessons with branches and flowers, then move onto using materials that you can find in the Ruth Bancroft Garden. The class will then have time to work on their own arrangements (to take home) with the assistance of Suiei Sensei. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, 1552 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, (925) 944-9352.
View event website »The San Francisco Branch of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement) is delighted to collaborate with the Ruth Bancroft Garden, presenting 20 unique and artistic Ikebana arrangements in an exhibit in the Visitor and Education Center. The Ruth Bancroft Garden. 1552 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, (925) 944-9352.
View event website »Join Jeff Moore for a presentation featuring the mostly spiny sculptural succulents – cacti, euphorbias, pachypodiums, alluaudias, and even some ‘succulent adjacent’ spinies, including terrestrial bromeliads, cycads, and other plants that belong in the conversation. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, 1552 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, (925) 944-9352.
View event website »Join Brian Kemble, world-renown aloe expert, for a garden walk and learn all about the Garden’s unparalleled collection of aloes, including hybrids not found anywhere else in the world. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, 1552 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, (925) 944-9352.
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