Designing a Climate-Resilient Garden, with Cricket Riley
Take a virtual tour of Bancroft Garden & Nursery in Walnut Creek, California, and learn how a master gardener designs for climate resilience.
Dear Friends,
In today’s new episode of the Secrets of Mastery, we’re returning to our May theme of sustainable garden design. Our audio producer, Pauline Bartolone, recently toured the legendary Ruth Bancroft Garden & Nursery in Walnut Creek, California, with its design services director, Cricket Riley, as her guide. You’ll hear about the Garden’s late founder, Ruth Bancroft, and the pioneering approach to dry gardening that brought her national acclaim. You’ll hear some of the core principles for implementing what is now known as “climate-resilient” gardening, and glean some tips from Riley on crafting beautiful, sustainable, low-water landscapes in your own backyard.
I hope you’ll enjoy listening to: “Designing a Climate-Resilient Garden” with Cricket Riley. It’s available only for paid subscribers here on Substack. Our contributors work long and hard to bring you these beautifully crafted stories. We consider it only fair to pay them for such labors, and we can’t do that without your support. So if you haven’t already upgraded your subscription, just $6/month or $60/year will get you access to the entire Secrets of Mastery series, along with other premium features we have in the works.
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