Despite Ruth Bancroft Garden celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, many still call the two-and-a-half succulent acres one of Walnut Creek's hidden jewels. It will be much easier to find the next ...

WALNUT CREEK — Phenomenally, the Ruth Bancroft Garden & Nursery has retained its mysterious aura as its world-renowned 3.5 acres enter a second half-century in operation. Established 50 years ago as a ...

The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek is filled with mature, mysterious and awe-inspiring succulents and cactuses. In the lovely benign weather of spring, when it’s neither too warm nor too chilly ...

Cacti are weird enough – bulbous, spiny and sprouting flowers and fruits where you’d least expect them. Take a historic cactus-and-succulents garden and add artwork — like a pregnant woman’s torso ...

Combining biography of the dry garden’s pioneer with a landscaper’s guide, Silver, a garden editor for Sunset magazine, and photographer Brenner tour the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, Calif., ...

If you’re one of the many fans of the public Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, you might be interested in a new book inspired by the garden and its pioneering founder, Ruth Bancroft. “Designing ...

Forty years into his dream job, Ruth Bancroft Garden & Nursery curator Brian Kemble is never entirely alone in his head as he goes about planting, hybridizing, photographing, documenting and building ...

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (BCN) — Despite Ruth Bancroft Garden celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, many still call the two-and-a-half succulent acres one of Walnut Creek’s hidden jewels. It will be ...