Meditate with Desert Mandalas
In honor of National Relaxation Day, enjoy these new Garden-inspired mandala coloring sheets. Simply drag the images below to your desktop, and...
Activity | Backyard Ikebana
Creating With Flowers, Stems and Leaves Freshly-snipped Garden flowers in a vase can liven up a home, with their inherent beauty and capacity to...
Garden Gallery Showcase Recap
More than 50 fellow Patrons Circle, Garden Fund and special donors joined in the Garden Gallery Showcase–a virtual gathering to celebrate the desert...
Prickly Pear-adise
Prickly Pear: Uses and Benefits Monsoon season in Arizona brings clouds, thunder, rain and flash floods in the mostly dry washes along the desert,...
Activity | DIY Dog Tags
Before you head to Dog Days at the Garden, create matching tags for you and your furry friend. • Print out the dog tag activity page.• Decorate!...
August EcoFlora Challenge | Monsoon Soon
Join the August EcoQuest: Monsoon Soon Help find and map species that are associated with monsoon season. It’s safe to say that rain is long overdue...
Activity | Build a Rain Stick
Monsoons sometimes need a little encouragement to get going and really pour. One way to accomplish that is with an instrument that sounds like the...
Monsoon Marvels
Trees bring surprises in the Sonoran Desert monsoon The cloudy days, the high humidity and afternoon thunderstorms. For many Arizonans, these are...
Sounds of Serenity
Garden staff always hope visitors will return with a thirst to learn more. Remarkably, one of the things that sparks the most curiosity is water....








