The Bold Dry Garden

Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden

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Rendering of new Visitor and Education Center from the east side of parking lot. Phase I construction of the project—grading and construction of the entry plaza, the Nursery display and sales area, and the parking lot, is now planned to start in this August with an August 19 Groundbreaking Celebration. Rendering by Robert Becker with IDF Global.

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Garden Ethnobotany Tour

10:30am - 11:30am

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Open Photography Session:

Garden at First Light

7:30am - 10am

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Aesthetic Pruning

10:00am - 12:00pm

Learn how to keep it looking good!

Watercolors in the Garden - Painting the Rainbows of Green

10:00am - 1:00pm each day

Come paint with us!

Fruit Tasting Tour

two sessions available

11:00am - 12:30pm or 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Come taste the Garden's bounty!

Capturing Evening Light - Photography Workshop

Correction to postcard, this

class is on Saturday evening.

4:30pm - 6:30pm

Learn tips and tricks from John and Richard.

2017 - 2018 Docent Training will begin In November.

Please contact Anna Halverson, anna@ruthbancroftgarden.org, or call the office if you are interested in taking the training!

The Ruth Bancroft Garden is available for private rentals on selected Saturday and Sunday evenings from June through early September. Daytime rentals during the garden's regular business hours are also available.

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Gymnocalycium schickendantzii ssp. delaetii is summer-blooming, with flowers emerging mainly in December and January in its native habitat in Argentina. Of course, the seasons are reversed in California, and at the Ruth Bancroft Garden our plants flower from June to August, sometimes extending into the fall months. As with other species of Gymnocalycium, the buds of G. schickendantzii ssp. delaetii are covered with smooth overlapping scales. They open into funnel-shaped flowers which are off-white or flushed pink and about 2 inches long (5 cm). Though the plants flower over an extended period, there are never more than a few flowers open at any given time.

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