Tag: saving cactus
Dinner on the Desert 2024
On April 20, a group of philanthropists, community leaders and Desert Botanical Garden friends gathered for its major annual fundraiser, Dinner on the Desert. The desert night sky and dramatic plant palette provided the perfect outdoor setting for a dinner that...
Garden Researchers Describe 6 Agaves Domesticated by Southwestern Indigenous People
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...
Dinner on the Desert 2023 Recap
Desert Botanical Garden’s 2023 Dinner on the Desert held at the Garden on April 22 brought more than 630 Garden enthusiasts together to raise more than $500,000 for the Garden’s critical work for desert plant conservation. The event was co-chaired by Shoshana...
