Ruth Margaret Petersson Bancroft September 2, 1908 – November 26, 2017 Resident of Walnut Creek, CA Ruth was born in Brockton, Mass. to Torsten Petersson and Ruth Nelson Petersson. She came to ...

If you’re one of the many fans of the public Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, you might be interested in a new book inspired by the garden and its pioneering founder, Ruth Bancroft. “Designing ...

Speaking of brightly lit holiday attractions, one of our favorites sprouts in Walnut Creek's Ruth Bancroft Garden every year around this time and leaves us speechless with its explosion of colors. The ...

What’s better than a beautiful garden full of strange cacti and succulents? How about when they’re decked out with lights and glowing apparatuses, looking like a Christmas-tree farm imported from an ...