How to Diagnose Plant Problems

March 28, 2023

Plants are susceptible to diseases, injuries and stress. Plant problems can have multiple causes, making it difficult to identify the primary or even secondary issues. To make matters worse, gardens exhibit variability because they are dynamic living systems. Plant...

Top 10 Spring Blooms to Look for at the Garden

February 24, 2023

The Garden’s most colorful season is almost here! Throughout the spring, the Garden will be blanketed with a kaleidoscope of colors — a sea of red, pink, yellow, orange, white and purple wildflowers! Make your reservations to the Garden today at dbg.org. And if you...

Cactus Named After Women

February 24, 2023

For Women’s History Month, the Garden is celebrating by sharing a few cactus species and genus that are named after prominent botanists, philanthropists and writers. The list includes the Garden’s very own founder Gertrude Divine Webster whose passion and support for...

Cactus Blooms in Arizona

February 15, 2022

It’s that magical time of the year again — probably one of the Garden’s favorite. Very soon the Garden will be an oasis of cactus blooms, including the yellow flowers of prickly pear cactus, the creamy-white flowers of saguaros and the showy pink flowers of...

Activity | Backyard Ikebana

August 7, 2020

Creating With Flowers, Stems and Leaves Freshly-snipped Garden flowers in a vase can liven up a home, with their inherent beauty and capacity to grace indoor living spaces. Although this is often done hurriedly without too much thought, the plants growing in backyards...