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Lab Members Recently Featured on Popular Podcast

Lab Members Recently Featured on Popular Podcast

Lab members Ali Schuessler and Brad Posch were recently featured on the popular podcast: In Defense of Plants. You can listen to Ali’s feature titled “Soil Microbes and Desert Plant Restoration” here. And you can listen to Brad’s feature here.     You can...
32 New Saguaros Added on Desert Botanical Garden Trails

32 New Saguaros Added on Desert Botanical Garden Trails

Each year, the Garden’s horticulture team carries out a saguaro succession planting, an essential effort to replace saguaros lost to storms, rot or other natural impacts. This work is guided by the annual saguaro inventory, led by the GIS manager and research...
Grow a Kitchen Scrap Garden

Grow a Kitchen Scrap Garden

In April, welcome the spring blooms with your littlest ones at a Seedlings class. Seedlings is a wonderful experience for kids ages 3 to 5 and their caregivers where we learn about nature, explore the Garden and play outside. For four Wednesdays in April, we’ll be...
Bottles & Bites: A Bourbon Experience Rooted in the Desert

Bottles & Bites: A Bourbon Experience Rooted in the Desert

Set against the stunning backdrop of Desert Botanical Garden, Bottles & Bites with SanTan Distilling is a bourbon experience rooted in place, flavor and connection. Don’t forget to purchase your tickets for the Jan. 28 event here. We sat down with the team behind...
From Baby to Giant: The Saguaro Journey

From Baby to Giant: The Saguaro Journey

At the Garden, caring for saguaros means understanding them at every stage of life from seed to desert icon.  Several researchers at the Garden work on monitoring these plants, studying their growth at different life stages and helping visitors appreciate how these...