Celebrating 85 Years of the Garden: Research and Conservation Local to Global
For 85 years, Desert Botanical Garden has served as a global leader in research and conservation of desert plants and their habitats. Today, 26 Garden scientists collaborate with academic, research, and conservation groups across nine countries and four continents.
Plant Pressing
A great summertime activity is to collect small leaves and flowers to dry and preserve. These natural keepsakes remind us of special outdoor adventures.
Dinner on the Desert 2024
On April 20, a group of philanthropists, community leaders and Desert Botanical Garden friends gathered for its major annual fundraiser, Dinner on the Desert.
Celebrating 85 Years of the Garden: 85 Never Looks So Good
Desert Botanical Garden is helping to save cactus from threats like habitat loss and poaching. At the same time, these remarkable plants are helping to save us.
Celebrating 85 Years of the Garden: Current State of the Garden’s Collection
Every botanical garden has an origin story. The story tells how the garden came to be where it is, the passions of the founders, the purpose for its being and the original plants.
Celebrating 85 Years of the Garden: Amazing Uses for Cactus
Desert Botanical Garden is helping to save cactus from threats like habitat loss and poaching. At the same time, these remarkable plants are helping to save us.
Celebrating Desert Botanical Garden’s 663 Volunteers
Volunteers are an integral part of Desert Botanical Garden. Each year, Volunteers in the Garden, or VIGs as they are affectionately known here, help make the Garden as lively as it is.
An Earth Day Self-Guided Tour
Garden Go! This all-new Earth Day self-guided Garden-wide tour explores how desert plants adapt to survive and thrive in the hot, dry desert. See...
Fund the Farm Recap 2024
More than 400 community leaders, philanthropists and Garden friends attended the Garden’s sixth annual Fund the Farm fundraiser for Spaces of Opportunity.