Month: April 2020
Send Mom Some Virtual Love
With Mother’s Day coming up, bring the beauty of the Garden to a mom in your life with these free downloadable postcards. How to Download Save the images to your cell phone’s photo library or to your desktop by holding and clicking, right clicking or...
Activity | Make Mom a Flower Crown
Celebrate the moms in your life with this nature craft activity for all ages. All you need are a few craft supplies and whatever you can find in your garden or flower selection at your grocer. Materials: Printed crown template or free-hand draw your own...
Earth Day 2020 | Tool Shed
Celebrate 50 years of Earth Day at home with Desert Botanical Garden. Dig into the Earth Day Tool Shed below with your families to see how you can help the Garden preserve nature and the environment today so they can be shared with future generations. Also, learn...
Caring for the Garden’s Collection | Q & A with The Director of Horticulture
During Desert Botanical Garden’s temporary closure, 21 horticulture staff are hard at work, ensuring the plants and trails are as beautiful and cared for as ever. Take a peek behind the scenes to see how staff are accomplishing this. What does is take to...
A Changing Earth
The potential effects on plants and other organisms due to the decrease in human activity is a bit speculative right now. However, based on current knowledge, these are some possible effects that may be occurring. These represent likely positive human impacts on the...
Send a Virtual Postcard
We dedicate these digital postcards to everyone in our community that works to keep us safe, healthy and fed during the COVID crisis. We hope that they will bring you peace and joy from the unease in your daily lives and remind you of the restorative power of nature...
Activity | Fruit Dissection
Fruit is a great introductory to dissection, because fruit is typically easy to cut into, has simple anatomy and is easy to obtain. For this activity, use the botanical definition of fruit: the seed-bearing structure produced in plants after flowering. Fruits ideal...
Become a Citizen Scientist
Sign up for May’s Desert Defenders Challenge to map out as much stinknet (Oncosiphon piluliferum) in the Phoenix Metro Area as possible. Introducing The Metro Phoenix EcoFlora Project Attention citizen scientists! Desert Botanical Garden needs your help to find...
