Help the Garden Track Monarchs This Winter
Have you seen monarch butterflies flying around your yard or favorite pollinator habitat? They are back for the winter season and in great numbers...
Mexican Ponche Recipe
Mexican Ponche is a warm fruit punch served during the holidays. This sweet and comforting beverage is made with apples, pears, oranges, guavas, as well as the sweet blend of hibiscus, tejocotes, and piloncillo—a perfect complement to the winter season and the delectable dishes enjoyed during Posadas and family gatherings.
Care And Maintenance of Holiday Cactus
As the holiday season draws closer, keep your eyes peeled for a super special cactus that steals the show this time of year: the Holiday cactus.
Holiday Flowers and Greenery
Bracts are the red flower-like petals you might find on a poinsettia, but they are specialized leaves. Look closely at the center of the bracts, and you will see small flowers. Poinsettias are in the Euphorbia family related to succulent euphorbias.
Central Arizona Cactus and Succulent Society Celebrates 50th Anniversary
From Nov. 4-5, the Garden will host a two- day Día de Muertos festival with a procession for the entire family to enjoy.
The Most Strange Cactus in the Garden
Razor sharp spines. Plants that cut themselves to creep along the ground. Cactus with mutations! At Desert Botanical Garden, guests will encounter several ‘creepy’ cactus species throughout the trails.
Garden Researchers Describe 6 Agaves Domesticated by Southwestern Indigenous People
In the paper, “Pre-contact Agave Domesticates—Living Legacy Plants in Arizona’s Landscape” published in the Annuals of Botany, Garden researchers Wendy Hodgson, Andrew Salywon and volunteer Jane Rosenthal describe six rare domesticated agave species whose clones remarkably can still be found living in abandoned ancient fields in Arizona.
Meet the Garden’s Newest Research Assistant Luis Romero
Across the sandy desert floor in northwestern New Mexico, two small rare cactus species — Sclerocactus mesae-verdae and Sclerocactus cloverae — call this place home. Yet, these plants are threatened by poachers and habitat loss due to oil and gas development in the area, both of which have depleted their already low populations numbers in the wild.
Launch of Global Water Potential Network by Lab Member Dr. Jessica Guo and Colleagues
The National Science Foundation funded Global Water Potential Network, PSInet was recently launched by lab member Dr. Jessica Guo and colleague Dr. Kimberly Novick (University of Indiana).
