Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. Q: I visited the Ruth Bancroft Garden in July, ...
On a rainy spring evening, a group of women shared their tools: wooden beads, strips of crepe paper and cups of glue. Step by step, they transformed their piles of craft supplies into gorgeous paper ...
In California, there are eggplants and then there are “fried-egg plants.” Sometimes known as the California tree poppy, the white bush poppy or the dream of the desert, the flower of the Romneya ...