Easy Ways to Support the Garden This Holiday Season
Each year, your support for Desert Botanical Garden has helped us promote and carry out essential conservation and research initiatives...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Previous Lab Member Dr. Luiza Aparecido Starts New Faculty Position
Dr. Luiza Aparecido started her new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Utah....