Why You Must Read “The Bold Dry Garden”

Ruth Bancroft was both gardener and collector. Her legacy is a botanic garden destined to long outlive her.  As she researched her book, The Bold Dry Garden, it dawned on Sunset’s garden editor Johanna Silver that plant collectors are not necessarily gardeners, and vice-versa. The subject of the book, Ruth Bancroft, was both gardener and collector—as is…

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