Education
Spreading Wildflower Cheer
Spread Wildflower Cheer- Now and Later Send double the positivity to your friends and family with a handmade seed and paper pulp card! They’ll be delighted now to receive a handmade card and later as they watch the wildflowers sprout and bloom. Seed paper cards are...
Activity | Cooking with Sunshine
During the summer it’s hard to ignore that the Sonoran Desert is hot, often exceeding 104 degrees. While seeking refuge from the sun inside, the plants outside are using the energy from the sun to make their own food through a process called photosynthesis. In this...
Paint with Water
Objective: Explore evaporative properties of water in the desert through creative outdoor painting. One characteristic of a desert is a dry climate with a relatively high rate of evaporation. This is especially true for the Sonoran Desert, which in some cases, small...
Summer Plant SOS
Record breaking heat is hard on us, imagine what's going on with your plant. Here are some helpful tips to provide them relief: If your plants are turning yellow, place shade cloth over the plants until temperatures are in the 90s. Since we haven’t receive any...
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 print! Or import them into your favorite software program to begin.
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 grace indoor living spaces. Although this is often done hurriedly without too much thought, the plants growing in backyards...
