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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 research and conservation staff collaborate with academic, research, and conservation groups across nine countries...
Celebrating 85 Years of the Garden: 85 Never Looks So Good
What began as a dream to save and care for desert ecosystems outside the house of Gustaf Stark, a Swedish botanist in 1939 has now become a desert oasis for more than 50,000 plant species and hundreds of animals and pollinators. All of the Garden’s achievements...
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. Desert Botanical Garden’s origin story also includes the serendipitous recruitment of...
