Garden Stories
Research Canines are Helping the Garden Find These Rare and Endangered Arizona Orchids
Meet Circe and Muon! They are two specially-trained dogs used in ecological research who are helping Desert Botanical Garden, U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the Smithsonian find rare and endangered orchids growing in southern Arizona.
Local Blues Icon Inducted to Arizona Music Hall of Fame at Garden
On Feb. 7, a local blues legend was inducted to the Arizona Music Hall of Fame at Music in the Garden.
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.
