Month: February 2025
Local Blues Icon Inducted to Arizona Music Hall of Fame at Garden
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...
Support Fund the Farm
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...
Get Outdoors! – Map Making Merriment
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,...
Centered. A Storytelling Experience Returns for a Third Year, Highlight HBCUs
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...
Desert Botanical Garden, SanTan Spirits Continues Partnership with Launch of New Bourbon
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 Herbarium Celebrates Adding Its One Hundred Thousandth Accessioned Specimen
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...
