| Education & Programs |
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| 2010 Author Event Series |
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Please join The Ruth Bancroft Garden for an exciting series of Author Events this winter! Each session will involve a lecture as well as book-signing. Come learn new gardening techniques from the experts! |
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Pam Peirce
Golden Gate Gardening
Saturday, February 13, 2-4 pm
Golden Gate Gardening is the definitive primer on vegetable gardening in Northern California. Full of information and camaraderie, this book explains how to grow common vegetables and herbs and add unusual ones that bring variety to the garden. There are sections on edible flowers, cutting flowers, fruits, and managing local pests and weeds. The talk will focus
on water conservation and other sustainable practices in bay area food gardens.
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Keeyla Meadows
Fearless Color Gardens: The Creative Gardener's Guide to Jumping Off the Color Wheel
Saturday, March 6, 2-4 pm
Learn how to pick colors that work together; how to coordinate the colors of walls, benches, containers, and garden art; how to organize garden spaces through the use of color; and how to translate personal color preferences into tangible form in the garden. Fearless Color Gardens also features a new way of looking at color with "Keeyla's Color Triangle"; easy-to use tips on growing edibles in color-themed gardens; and Keeyla's favorite plants for specific colors.
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Debra Lee Baldwin
Succulent Container Gardens
Saturday, March 20, 2-4 pm
The popular author of Designing with Succulents and Succulent Container Gardens provides everything beginners and experienced gardeners need to know to create stunning container displays of exceptionally water-wise plants. Define your individual style as you discover how to effectively combine patterns, colors, textures, and forms. Whether your goal is a gorgeous potted garden for a sunny windowsill or outdoor living area — or simply making great gifts — you'll enjoy a presentation that emphasizes plants as living works of art. |
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Event Pricing:
$25: General Admission
$20: RBG Members
$20: Garden Conservancy Members
3 ways to register:
Online: www.tinyurl.com/RBGauthors
Phone: Call Karen at (925) 944-9352
Mail/Fax: Click Here For a Registration Form
All RBG Author Events will be held at the Faith Christian Fellowship Center Auditorium at:
860 Bancroft Road
Walnut Creek, CA 94598 |
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| Elementary Program |
The Garden offers a two-hour field trip program that meets the California curriculum standards for the third grade. When students arrive they are divided into small groups and rotate through a series of stations that introduce them to local history, flowers and pollinators, propagation, and water storage in plants. Afterward the students take a stroll through the garden to learn about ethnobotany. Each student plants a seed and a succulent cutting to take home. Field trips are offered in the spring and fall. The cost is $5 per student.
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| College Internship Program |
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The Garden offers internships to college students in the areas of horticulture, landscape architecture or design, botany, scientific illustration, and related fields. Interns will receive hands-on training and experience in the areas of plant propagation and nursery production, greenhouse management, landscape management, interpretive education, and plant inventory and/or database management. Interns are needed all year!
We will work with your college or university so you can earn credit for your internship.
Download Internship Overview
Download Internship Application |
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| Adult Education Programs |
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The Garden offers an array of workshops, classes, and seminars for the home gardener and horticulture/green industry professional. These programs range from special tours of The Garden with Assistant Garden Director Brian Kemble to all-day Dry Garden Design Seminars. For updated information on these programs, please visit our Calendar of Events.
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| Mission Statement |
| The mission of the Ruth Bancroft Garden, Inc. is to preserve this exceptional example of garden design and to continue to develop its collection of water-conserving plants for the education and enjoyment of the public. |
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| Centennial Celebration |
| We are celebrating Garden Founder Ruth Bancroft's 100th year throughout 2009. If you would like to get involved in this historic milestone, you can help by contributing to the Centennial Fund or by attending on of our many special events this year. |
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| Grant Funders |
| The Ruth Bancroft Garden would like to recognize the Quest Foundation for funding our Education Coordinator’s position, and the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust for funding our Volunteer Coordinator’s position, as well as for their generous support over the years. |
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