The Bold Dry Garden

The Ruth Bancroft Garden is one of the country’s most renowned public gardens; a rich example of inspired low-water landscaping. Planted by Bancroft herself on 3.5 acres of her Walnut Creek, California, home, the garden celebrates its creator’s extraordinary passion for succulents and other xeric plants, as well as her visionary sense of design. More than forty years after it was first planted, the garden continues to develop its collection of water-conserving plants for the education and enjoyment of the public.