Focus on Fall with old and new favorites, California natives, and radiant design!

One-day horticulture and design seminar.

Presented by the Garden Conservancy and The Ruth Bancroft Garden.

Cosponsored by Pacific Horticulture magazine. Additional support from Monrovia.

Location:

Community Hall, Lafayette Library and Learning Center, Lafayette, CA

Time:

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Admission:

• Garden Conservancy/The Ruth Bancroft Garden members and LLLCF donors: $85
  
  
• Pacific Horticulture subscribers: $95
  
  
• General admission: $105

Fees includes talk, lunch, and reception.

 

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Speakers/Lectures include:

Foliage, flowers, fruit and architecture in the Western Fall Garden
(Something for Everyone!)

Debra Prinzing, garden writer, Seattle

Fall Focus: Landscape Plants for California Gardens
Bob Perry, author, Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, Cal Poly Pomona

Greens, Grays, and Golds in a Native Garden
Katherine Greenberg, California Native Plant Garden, Lafayette

Spectacular Plants on the “Hoof and on the Plate”
Nicholas Staddon, Monrovia, Azusa, CA

Sharing Monet’s Passion for the Autumn Garden
Elizabeth Murray, author, artist, garden consultant, Monterey

View a PDF describing Elizabeth Murray‘s latest book here.


Short talks:

Fall Glory at RBG

Brian Kemble, Curator, The Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek
View photos of the Ruth Bancroft Garden during fall here.

Autumn in the Mediterranean: South African and Californian Blends

Chris Jacobson, garden designer, San Francisco

Click here to read speaker bios


Garden visit:
California Native Plant Garden, Lafayette
Designed and owned by Katherine Greenberg

See photos by Debra Prinzing of this garden in a 2011 Garden Design Green Award application. View additional photos by Saxon Holt Photography.

About the Ruth Bancroft Horticultural Series

Since 2004, the Garden Conservancy and the Ruth Bancroft Garden have teamed up to create two annual horticultural seminars and garden study tours in the East Bay, on different horticultural topics. The seminars, which have used venues at the Civic Arts Education Center in Walnut Creek, the Lafayette Library and Learning Center, and the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, have attracted an enthusiastic audience of horticultural/design professionals and serious amateurs to hear a parade of distinguished speakers. Each seminar also includes a visit to the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. Seminar themes have ranged from the influence of South Africa, Mexico, and South America on the California garden, to gardening in a dry climate and plant-driven design. One seminar featured two full days of oral history about Mrs. Bancroft and her horticultural contemporaries (eight of them, including many of the seminal horticulturists and designers in California and on the West Coast in the twentieth century). These popular and information-rich events encourage networking, bring together expert speakers with a knowledgeable audience, and provide access to magnificent private gardens. These events have been supported by East Bay Municipal Utility District, Contra Costa Water District, Pacific Horticulture magazine, and Monrovia.