Celebrating 85 Years of the Garden: Wendy Hodgson, A Desert Botanical Garden Botanist Icon

January 17, 2024

Photo by Kate Watters How many people can say they have worked for the same institution for 50 years? Wendy Hodgson, Herbarium Curator Emerita and Senior Research Botanist, is that rare individual at Desert Botanical Garden who came to a place for a job and stayed...

Celebrating Black History Month | Marie Clark Taylor

February 8, 2021

Marie Clark Taylor (1911-1990) Marie Clark Taylor was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D in botany from Fordham University. She also served as the department head at Howard University for many years. During her career, Taylor created science institutes...

Budding Botanist Training

January 29, 2021

SOLD OUT Join this three-day virtual workshop to learn about Arizona’s great diversity of plants, important plant families and how to identify plants based on their distinguishing features. Dissecting kits are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please...

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Celebrating 85 Years of the Garden: Wendy Hodgson, A Desert Botanical Garden Botanist Icon

Celebrating Black History Month | Marie Clark Taylor

Budding Botanist Training