An Afternoon In The Garden
Ruth Bancroft Garden and Nursery , a 3.5-acre botanical garden and retail nursery in Walnut Creek, California, is one of the places we've been meaning to visit for decades now. Somehow we kept forgetting to go there. Last month, though, we found a free Saturday afternoon and immediately penciled the garden in our schedule to make sure we definitely gets to visit it. According to the self-guided tour book given to the visitors, the gardens mission is: to preserve this exceptional example of dry-garden design and to continue to develop its collection of water-conserving plants for the education of the public. It was a beautiful and pleasant late May afternoon when we visited. We were given the self-guided tour book to follow upon paying the entrance fee. I did not open the booklet at all while I was there and just felt content to walk around and enjoy all the plants. While walking around we were approached by a docent. Unbeknownst to us we could have availed of their services
