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...
Over the last five years, a simple observation from a Desert Botanical Garden researcher sparked a fascinating project. Wendy Hodgson, Herbarium Curator Emerita and Senior Research Botanist, noticed that after rainstorms, a group of smaller saguaros on South Mountain...
Consistent weeks of record-breaking high temperatures is stressful for many plants. Despite best efforts to keep plants alive, many will begin to see symptoms of heat and drought stress. Leaves, fruit, flowers, bark, wood and roots may be damaged. Different plant...
Greetings from the Saguaro Nursery Team! It’s been a season of growth both for baby nursery saguaros and for the incredible community helping to care for them. In just the past month, the Garden launched seedlings into the world, hosted our first seed-starting...
In parallel with our ongoing Saguaro Census, Desert Botanical Garden researchers and volunteers have launched a bold new effort: creating a collective nursery to grow saguaro seedlings that might better survive Phoenix’s extreme desert conditions: the Saguaro Nursery....
