Have You Been to the Bancroft Garden's Recently?

I am not aware that the following are remarkable feat in the Ruth Bancroft Gardens(RBG) here in Walnut Creek.  Have you been to the RBG recently?

Question: What remarkable feat marks the Ruth Bancroft Garden's contribution to botanical conservation, and how does its collection stand out on a global scale?

A) It was the first garden in California to use exclusively native plants.

B) It houses the largest collection of aquatic plants in the United States.

C) It was the first garden in the United States to be preserved by The Garden Conservancy.

D) It contains the world's rarest species of orchids. https://orchidrepublic.com/blogs/news/the-rarest-orchids-in-the-world From: The Walnut Creek Spotlight Newsletter

The Ruth Bancroft Garden is a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) public dry garden established by Ruth Bancroft. It contains more than 2,000 cactus, succulents, trees, and shrubs native to California, Mexico, Chile, South Africa, and Australia. It is located at 1552 Bancroft Road in Walnut Creek, California, USA. For Complete Details visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bancroft_Garden Finally some Gardening Quotes: If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ...  To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. ...  A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. Lastly, For my cacti and succulent collections visit: Some of my Cacti Collections at Chateau Du Mer Gardens in the Philippines https://chateaudumer.blogspot.com/2021/04/my-cacti-and-succulents-in-philippines.html Meanwhile speaking of unusual plants, here's the latest news about the Corpse Flower in the San Francisco Academy of Sciences Gardens 'Like a port-a-potty': Bay Area residents line up for 'exceptional' Golden Gate Park event By Kendra SmithUpdated Feb 29, 2024 10:01 a.m. A rare Indonesian plant called a corpse flower began to bloom Tuesday afternoon at San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences, and by Wednesday morning, more than a hundred Bay Area residents had lined up to catch a whiff of its elusive scent, which the plant only exudes when it blossoms. Due to its odor, like that of a rotting corpse, the titan arum is characterized as a carrion flower, and is also known as the corpse flower or corpse plant as translated from the original Indonesian word bunga bangkai (bunga means flower, while bangkai can be translated as corpse, cadaver, or carrion). https://abc7news.com/corpse-flower-amorphophallus-titanium-mirage-the-san-francisco-academy-of-sciences-48-hour-bloom/14476352/