Garden Conservancy and Ruth Bancroft Garden Present A Full-Day Seminar: “Gift of Persia: Exotic Gardens for California” July 15, 2011

Many cultures have borrowed garden design ideas from Persia and, over the centuries, have shared an amazingly broad palette of plants for drier climates. This full-day seminar in the 2011 Ruth Bancroft Horticultural Series is presented by the Garden Conservancy and the Ruth Bancroft Garden, and brings together a design writer, an historian, two landscape architects, an interior/garden designer, and several horticulturists. A reception with wine and plants at the Ruth Bancroft Garden will follow the talks.

Gift of Persia: Exotic Gardens for California, a horticultural and design history seminar on the Moorish, Mughal, and Mediterranean influence on California gardens, is presented by the Garden Conservancy and Ruth Bancroft Garden and cosponsored by Pacific Horticulture magazine and the Gardens at Heather Farm, with additional support from Monrovia Growers.
Registration: $85 - $105 includes lunch and refreshments. Student rates available.

PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE:
Inspiration for Private Paradises--
Zahid Sardar, design writer and author of New Garden Design, San Francisco;
Persian Gardens on the Move! History of the movement of the Persian Garden to other cultures--
Patrick N. Hunt, Ph.D., archaeologist/art historian, Stanford University;
The Rain in Spain…Moorish Lessons in Planting Design and Water Use--
Christy Edstrom O’Hara, landscape architect, San Luis Obispo;
Romance Plants for Northern California Lavish plants and design borrowed from East and West of the Mediterranean--
Davis Dalbok, Garden Designer, San Francisco, CA;
California’s Getty Villa Roman architecture with an Italian sensitivity of planting--
Michael DeHart, horticulturist, Getty Villa, Malibu;
A Contemporary Classical Garden: Translation of classical style garden in a contemporary garden design in Hillsborough --
Todd R. Cole, landscape architect, San Francisco;
More Plants and Reception at The Ruth Bancroft Garden--
Following the talks at The Gardens of Heather Farm, the seminar moves to The Ruth Bancroft Garden for a reception and plant discussion with Brian Kemble, RBG Curator, and Ed Lavio, fruit tree specialist from Devil Mountain Nursery.