What does Desert Botanical Garden’s Children’s Education Department love? Summer Camp at the Garden! From June 2 – 27, campers can spend time in nature exploring the Sonoran Desert. Here are five of our top reasons to attend a Garden summer camp: 1. Have fun outside...
On Feb. 7, a local blues legend was inducted to the Arizona Music Hall of Fame at Music in the Garden. Big Pete Pearson has been performing at Music in the Garden at Desert Botanical Garden for more than two decades, drawing large crowds and sold-out shows. The Garden...
Each year, Desert Botanical Garden puts together a special fundraising event, Fund the Farm Celebration, to help support Spaces of Opportunity, a community farm in South Phoenix. Over the years, these funds have helped Spaces of Opportunity expand, update certain...
Try your hand at another one of our popular activities: map making. This activity allows children to lead an outdoor adventure that will teach them to appreciate the natural world by using their senses and creating representations of their surroundings. Best of all,...
Desert Botanical Garden will celebrate Black History Month this year with the return of Centered. a storytelling experience that focuses on the powerful accounts of alumni from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. For a greater part of their history, HBCUs...
The duo you loved last year is introducing a new spirit: Gertrude’s Founders Bourbon. Desert Botanical Garden and Chandler-based SanTan Spirits are launching a private label bourbon following the success of the Garden’s 85th anniversary commemorative gin label in...
Desert Botanical Garden’s historic collection of plant specimens reached a milestone on Feb. 12. Staff and volunteers at The Lois Porter Earle Herbarium recorded data on the 100,000 specimen into its collection database system. The specimen is an agave that was...
Each year, Desert Botanical Garden showcases a new facet of its beauty. Cactus flowers. Exciting new exhibitions. Breakthrough research aimed at conserving and protecting the unique flora of the Sonoran Desert. So, when seasonal workers Grant Stanford and Alanna...
