Garden Stories
Support Fund the Farm
Each year, Desert Botanical Garden puts together a special fundraising event, Fund the Farm Celebration, to help support Spaces of Opportunity, a community farm in South Phoenix.
Desert Botanical Garden, SanTan Spirits Continues Partnership with Launch of New Bourbon
The duo you loved last year is bringing a new spirit: Gertrude’s Founders Bourbon.
Desert Botanical Garden and Chandler-based SanTan Spirits are launching a private label bourbon following the success of the Garden’s 85th anniversary commemorative gin label. This collaboration introduces a small batch of whiskey that is locally distilled, aged and hand bottled.
Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium Celebrates Adding Its One Hundred Thousandth Accessioned Specimen
On February 12, the Garden’s anniversary the Herbarium will confirm its 100,000 specimen.
A Garden Love Story
When seasonal workers Grant Stanford and Alanna Gillespie met at the call center on a chilly November day in 2018, it came as a delightful surprise that their budding friendship would later flourish into something more.
Endangered Species Act protection proposed for monarch butterflies: What can you do?
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed that the monarch butterfly receive protection as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act after years of troubling population decline and habitat loss.
The Legend of the Cempasúchil: An Eternal Love
This fall, Garden visitors will be moved at Día de Muertos on Oct. 29-30.
