The Ruth Bancroft Garden presents its annual Garden of D’Lights holiday event for 2024. Each year, they deck out the plants with multicolored lights, lasers, and more, transforming the already spectacular 3.5-acre space into an otherworldly outdoor adventure. Guests can stroll through the beautiful glowing gardens for 1-1.5 hours to discover countless photo ops and exciting displays.
Visit this extravagant dreamland, which will open on November 22 during time slots from Tuesday through Sunday evenings with select days off. The light display will remain open through the holiday season until January 11, 2025. General admission tickets are $25-29 for adults, $12-16 for children ages 5-17, and free for children under 5.
The dazzling light display is the Ruth Bancroft Garden’s primary fundraising event of the year, so make sure to visit Walnut Creek and support this beautiful botanical space. The event is self-guided and pet-friendly, so it feels like you’re exploring the grounds on your own terms.
The Ruth Bancroft Garden was born out of an enormous award-winning fruit farm dating back to the 1880s and passed down through the Bancroft family. In the late 1960s, owner Philip Bancroft Jr. ceased farm production and gifted the land to his wife, Ruth Bancroft, who was an avid gardener from Berkeley. Ruth’s enormous collection of succulents grew into a stunning landscape and accompanying nonprofit organization.
Visitors can now stroll through beautifully cultivated aloes, agaves, yuccas, echeverias, and more, almost all of which were chosen and arranged by Ruth herself. There’s also a substantial nursery space so that visitors can take a bit of the garden back home with them.
Find the Ruth Bancroft Garden at 1552 Bancroft Road in Walnut Creek, California.