![]() Evocatively named species like organ pipe cactus, beavertail pricklypear, and teddy bear cholla cluster around giant saguaros that are hundreds of years old, their accordion-like flesh expanding with stored water after a rare rain. Located in Papago Park, a landscape of slumping, rusty-red buttes resembling Jabba the Hutt, the garden is only 20 minutes from downtown Phoenix but seems a world away. Founded nearly 80 years ago, in the 1930s, by farsighted Phoenix residents appreciative of the desert’s fragile beauty and concerned about its survival amid rapid development, the 140-acre garden today consists of 5 loop trails featuring distinct desert experiences, including wildflowers, a nature trail, desert living, and plants and people of the Sonoran Desert.Įnter the Botanic Garden Getaway and win a trip for two to the Botanic Garden of your choice! Baja fairy duster brightens the desert garden Seussian plants-columnar and beach-ball-shaped cacti, jewel-box wildflowers, fleshy succulents, and flowering desert trees-DBG showcases plants like you’ve never seen from the Sonoran Desert and arid regions around the world. ![]() If a faded, Old West panorama of a lonely cactus and dusty tumbleweeds comes to mind when you hear the words “desert garden,” book a trip right now to Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. By High Country Gardens Standing tall like a bunch of giant pipe cleaners, ocotillo blooms amid masses of agave and cacti Plants Like You’ve Never Seen
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |