Planted with water-wise plants, the Ruth Bancroft Garden exemplifies an austere garden. It is not the typical lush and colorful garden where everything is provided and all challenges are eliminated to optimize the performance of plants. In this garden, the plants are those that can live on less water - it is not that they do not need more water but that they have a deeper tolerance to drought.
Here are pictures of some plants I saw:
1. Prickly Pear (Opuntia ficus-indica)
2. Agave peryii - starting to bloom
3. Agave havardiana
4. Echinopsis huascha
4. Probably a Stenocereus_eruca
5. (Help me name this plant)
6. (Help me name this plant)
Visit your local public gardens to expand your imagination.
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