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Ruth Bancroft Garden

Public dry garden in Walnut Creek, California From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Ruth Bancroft Garden is a 3.5-acre (1.4 ha) public dry garden established by Ruth Bancroft. It contains more than 2,000 cactus, succulents, trees, and shrubs native to California, Mexico, Chile, South Africa, and Australia. It is located at 1552 Bancroft Road in Walnut Creek, California, USA.

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History

The Garden began in the early 1950s as Ruth Bancroft's private collection of potted plants within Bancroft Farm, a 400-acre (160 ha) property bought by publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft (grandfather of Ruth's husband Philip) in the 1880s as an orchard for pears and walnuts.[1][2] In the 1950s, Bancroft brought home a single succulent, an Aeonium grown by plant breeder Glenn Davidson.[3] By 1972, the collection was moved to its current site, when the orchard was cut down and the land was rezoned.[3]

In 1989, it became the first garden in the United States to be preserved by The Garden Conservancy, and has been open to the public since 1992.[3] Today the Garden is an outstanding landscape of xerophytes (dry-growing plants). It is open to the public for an admission fee of $810.

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Collection

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Trees, succulents, and other plants at the Garden.

Garden collections include the following plants:

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