![]() ![]() Hang out by flowering aloes to spot hummingbirds. Richly painted stucco walls and bancos (built-in bench seating) in hot pink, terracotta red, olive green, and melon add Southwestern color and structure to the garden, as do lofty, barrel-vaulted shade structures of rusty steel, which protect tender cacti and succulents from sunburn (yes, even cacti can sunburn) and occasional frost. Many plants sheath themselves with sun-shading spines and cottony hairs that incandesce in sunlight, giving them a haloed glow, especially in the low light of morning and evening. Hedgehog cactus blushes with color in spring bloom. Crimson powder-puff flowers of Baja fairy duster dance alongside aloes’ tubular, orange flower spikes, and wildflowers paint the rocky soil in shades of purple, yellow, and pink in springtime. ![]() 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. Day)įriday, Nov.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 Check out science in action in the herbaria.Ģ023 Free Days for York Street and Chatfield Farms Access includes the Helen Fowler Library and the Copper Door coffee shop. The first floor of the Freyer – Newman Center at our York Street location is always free admission for members and the general public, no reservation required. Tickets will be available three months at a time (on a rolling basis) and the tickets will be released on the 1st of the month.Free Days are for regular Gardens hours only and do not include ticketed events.This event will sell out please get your tickets in advance. No onsite tickets available for sold out days. ![]() Farm & historical homestead in Littleton, COįree Days occur throughout the year, thanks to funding from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). ![]()
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