Garden Stories
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.
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:GROWING UP IN THE GARDEN
In the late 1940s, brothers John and Arthur Earle would run around barefoot exploring their new home: Desert Botanical Garden.





