Anticipating with great enthusiasm the latest offering in the 2011 Ruth Bancroft Horticultural Series. The seminar, presented by the Ruth Bancroft Garden and The Garden Conservancy is enticingly titled: Gift of Persia: Exotic Gardens for California, on Friday July 15th at The Gardens at Heather Farm. Gift of Persia: Exotic Gardens for California will look at the influence of Moorish, Mughal, and Mediterranean garden architecture on contemporary California gardens. The day-long event boasts an impressive roster of speakers, with an agenda encompassing horticulture and garden design history. Promising to be thought-provoking, challenging and inspirational, talks include a presentation by Patrick N. Hunt, PhD, archeologist/art historian from Stanford. Hunt will be discussing how elements of the Persian garden moved to other
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