Part One of my 2019 visit to the Ruth Bancroft Garden

Last year on this date I boarded an early morning flight to Sacramento, CA, where my friend Gerhard was waiting curbside to pick me up. The next morning we would be leaving his place in Davis, bound for Santa Barbara and the Bromeliad Summit. It's rather surreal how different things are now...

Before the Bromeliad Summit however we spent Thursday afternoon at the Ruth Bancroft Garden. Now seemed like a great time to relive the experience through my photos.

This was my first visit with the new garden entrance, you now enter through the nursery with a fancy visitors center (we'll see more of both of those tomorrow) before stepping out into the garden and seeing the—for me—signature plant of the garden, the Agave franzosinii, I do love the franzosinii...

Of course I love all agaves!

"Ruth's folly" is visible just to the right of this agave pair...

Some of the protective winter plant covers were still in place around the garden, thankfully the large one around the shade structure had been removed. All the better to appreciate the blooming aloes.

There's Gerhard...

I wonder if the solid green Agave attenuata ever feel jealous of the variegated guy's flashy stripes?

I think that's an Agave ovatifolia...

Maybe Agave horrida?

I've no clue if yellow is a healthy color for that cactus or not. It certainly is striking.

So much movement, even when they're perfectly still...

I'm going to dial back my chatter and let you wander the garden in peace...

Agave ovatifolia

(*swoon*)

Agave ovatifolia

Banksia carlinoides

Look at the foliage color on that blooming agave...

Ruth's folly

I believe these are the palms she planted from seed.

Aloe striata (coral aloe) will end today's post, come back for more tomorrow!

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