2009 Ruth Bancroft Garden Horticultural Series
Finale to The Australians

Refresh Your Australian Repertoire: how to mix exciting and appropriate Australian native plants in Bay Area gardens

Presented by The Garden Conservancy and The Ruth Bancroft Garden
Cosponsored by Pacific Horticulture magazine and the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley

Full-day Friday Seminar: 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Conference Center at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley

Half-day Study Tour on Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Oakland (three private gardens)/Flora Grubb Gardens, SF/San Francisco Botanical Garden

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The Australians speakers include:

• Randy Baldwin, horticulturist, San Marcos Growers, Santa Barbara
• Hank Jenkins, garden designer/horticulturist, Berkeley
• Dr. Glenn Keator, botanist/author, Berkeley
• Dr. Matt Ritter, biologist/professor, California Polytechnic State University, Leaning Pine Arboretum, San Luis Obispo
• Bernard Trainor, landscape designer/an Aussie himself! Pacific Grove

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See Speaker Abstracts and Bios

Register Online
Download Registration Form
or call 415-441-4300

Directions for online registration: please “submit” each day you wish to attend to the online shopping cart. After submitting one day, “continue shopping” until you have submitted all days for which you wish to register. Then you are ready to check out.

About the Seminars:
For this seminar series, The Australians, we have gathered together two excellent panels of speakers to lobby for mixing Australian native plants with California natives and plants from other mediterranean climates. These advocates know a lot about the growing conditions favored by Australians and how to mix their bright colors and strong forms in tantalizing garden compositions.

Over the past five years, we have selected seminar themes for The Ruth Bancroft Garden Horticultural Series that showcase the collections and gardening experience of The Ruth Bancroft Garden. We have offered virtual visits to three other plant communities appropriate for Bay Area Gardens—South Africa, Mexico, South America, and now Australia—with the intent of introducing exciting new plants available in the nursery trade, and to increase our collective understanding of native habitats and creative planting design from other regions.

Plants from Australia have been prominent in the California nursery trade for over a century—a palette of plants sought after because of their drought tolerance and long and colorful flowering season. Within easy reach of the Bay Area there are three excellent public garden collections of Australian Plants: the Botanical Garden at the University of California, Berkeley, the Arboretum at the University of California, Santa Cruz; San Francisco Botanical Garden; and, further a-field, Leaning Pine Arboretum at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

In more recent years gardeners and designers have often overlooked the marvelous array of Australian plants appropriate for our climate and soil conditions, finding some of them to be a bit fussy about their growing conditions and longevity.

REGISTRATION FEE:
Finale fee for both days (Includes lunch on Fri./refreshments and carpool on Sat.)
$110 Garden Conservancy/Ruth Bancroft Garden/UC Botanical Garden members
$120 Pacific Horticulture subscribers
$130 General admission

Tickets for Friday seminar only (includes lunch)
Subject to availability.
$75 Garden Conservancy/Ruth Bancroft Garden/UC Botanical Garden members
$85 Pacific Horticulture subscribers
$95 General admission

Please note: There is a pay-to-park lot at the seminar location. Early Bird registrants who carpool will receive free parking - please stay tuned for more details.

Finale Garden Study Tour fee
(Includes morning refreshments on Saturday; please bring picnic lunch)
$35 All admissions

Register Online
Download Registration Form
or call 415-441-4300

Directions for online registration: please “submit” each day you wish to attend to the online shopping cart. After submitting one day, “continue shopping” until you have submitted all days for which you wish to register. Then you are ready to check out.

LOGISTICS:
Conference Center at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley,
200 Centennial Dr. Berkeley, CA 94720 |
ph: 510/643-2755

The Ruth Bancroft Garden, 1500 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 | ph: 925/944-9352