Climate-Resilient Gardening, with Cricket Riley
On this episode of the Secrets of Mastery, explore the famed Ruth Bancroft Garden with an expert garden designer, gleaning inspiration (and a few tips) for planting a climate-resilient spring garden.
Dear Friends,
As a nod to the first days of spring—the season of seed catalogs—today we’re featuring an audio tour of the Ruth Bancroft Garden and Nursery in Walnut Creek, CA. Our tour guide is Cricket Riley, the garden’s former director of design services, who talks about the unique horticultural design principles of the garden’s late founder, Ruth Bancroft, and how her love of succulents and dry gardens grew into an international model for climate-resilient gardening. Ms. Riley also shares some guidelines and tips you can use in any backyard garden, large or small.
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