On Aug. 24, Desert Botanical Garden will debut its first art exhibition — The Leaf Connection —inside Webster Center. A mosaic of more than 1,000 ceramic leaves intricately pinned to a map of metro Phoenix, The Leaf Connection is an enticing exhibit created by local...
An exciting new art installation is arriving to Desert Botanical Garden in February 2025 that provides an opportunity for everyone to participate. TOWARD 2050, organized by Valley-based textile artist Ann Morton, is an exhibition that invites guests to create...
As Desert Botanical Garden gets ready to celebrate its 85th anniversary in February, we invite you to enter our winter photo contest. We want to see all the epic moments you have captured on our trails from the last 85 years. Submit your photos using the embedded link...
In the paper, “Pre-contact Agave Domesticates—Living Legacy Plants in Arizona’s Landscape” published in the Annals of Botany, Garden researchers Wendy Hodgson, Andrew Salywon and volunteer Jane Rosenthal describe six rare domesticated agave species whose clones...
Trekking along the rocky slopes of Tonto National Forest in March, a group of Desert Botanical Garden researchers and biologists from two federal agencies carried heavy-duty spelunking duffel bags filled with precious and spiky cargo. Inside them were 60 federally...
