Cricket Riley is the co-owner of Lush Dry Gardens (www.lushdrygardens.com), a landscape design firm  specializing in low-water garden design. She worked at The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek from 2017 to 2025. There she held a variety of positions, including Director of the Design Services department, which she created in 2019. She was also the primary instructor for RBG’s Dry Garden Design Certificate Program, which she co-created with Alice Kitajima in 2020.

Alice Kitajima’s profound connection to gardens and landscape design started at an early age, thanks to the influence of her father, who immigrated to Los Angeles to install Japanese-style gardens. She has worked at various botanical gardens and arboreta around the United States after finishing her forestry and music studies at University of California, Berkeley. As the Program Director at the Ruth Bancroft Garden, overseeing the education department, her greatest passion was connecting and deepening people’s connections with plants. 

Kier Holmes is a Bay Area native who, when not digging in her own laboratory-like garden, designing thoughtful gardens for clients, or lecturing on various gardening topics, is a contributing writer and content creator for Gardenista and Sonoma Magazine. Kier has also contributed to numerous other publications including Martha Stewart, Sunset, Better Homes & Gardens, National Geographic Kids, Edible Marin & Wine Country, and Marin Magazine, plus she is the author of The Garden Refresh: How to Give Your Yard Big Impact on a Small Budget. 

The Dulcey Genmai Bar is coming to Flora Grubb Gardens SF!!! We’re so excited to have Stay Sweet SF pop up with their confections at FGG SF on Saturday, 12/21.

So excited to have Breadbelly joining us for a lovely day in the garden! Come and get your beautiful delicious beverage and stroll among the plants.

Join Little Saplings Children’s Gardening for a fun-filled event at the new Garden Room at Flora Grubb Gardens in Los Angeles!

Join Little Saplings Children’s Gardening for a fun-filled event at the new Garden Room at Flora Grubb Gardens in Los Angeles!

Join the American Society of Interior Designers for an event at Flora Grubb Gardens SF!

So excited to have Breadbelly joining us for a lovely Sunday in the garden! Come and get your beautiful delicious beverage and stroll among the plants.

So excited to have Breadbelly joining us for a lovely Sunday in the garden! Come and get your beautiful delicious beverage and stroll among the plants.

Join us for a garden party celebrating the opening of ORCA's showroom in Flora Grubb Gardens San Francisco. See ORCA's installation of outdoor pavers that are designed and made in California, along with their new garden hardware collection. 

Join us for a garden party celebrating the opening of ORCA's showroom in Flora Grubb Gardens Los Angeles. See ORCA's installation of outdoor pavers that are designed and made in California, along with their new garden hardware collection. 

Join us at Flora Grubb LA to celebrate the launch of How to Make Soil, a book by Derek Richard Thomas (DRT) about the beautiful simplicity and signifcance of soil. Party's at 13198 Mindanao Way in Marina del Rey from 4pm-7pm on June 22—an afternoon and evening of live music and readings, a panel discussion, snacks, and giveaways.