WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (BCN) — Despite Ruth Bancroft Garden celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, many still call the two-and-a-half succulent acres one of Walnut Creek’s hidden jewels. It will be ...

Cacti are weird enough – bulbous, spiny and sprouting flowers and fruits where you’d least expect them. Take a historic cactus-and-succulents garden and add artwork — like a pregnant woman’s torso ...

The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek is filled with mature, mysterious and awe-inspiring succulents and cactuses. In the lovely benign weather of spring, when it’s neither too warm nor too chilly ...

What’s better than exploring a renowned Bay Area garden’s sprawling collection of cactus and succulents? What if the plants were accompanied with all sorts of artwork, light installations and lasers?

WALNUT CREEK — Phenomenally, the Ruth Bancroft Garden & Nursery has retained its mysterious aura as its world-renowned 3.5 acres enter a second half-century in operation. Established 50 years ago as a ...

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 ...

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 ...