Explore eight of the world's most beautiful desert gardens from Arizona to Morocco. Get locations, hours, and must-see highlights for each botanical collection.

With their stark beauty, desert/cactus gardens are typically found in hot and arid environments. Plants featured are usually drought-tolerant, such as succulents, desert grasses, aloes, agaves and ...

Desert Botanical Garden is celebrating its 85 th anniversary on Feb.10, 2024. Guests at the celebration can enjoy complimentary cactus cookies, hands-on nature play activities, musical performances, ...

With all of the heat this time of year, you are probably thinking that it might be a good time to start some indoor plants. Indoor gardens are also a great option for people in apartments or other ...

As The Desert Sun’s opinion and community engagement editor, I’m always looking for ways to collaborate with you, the readers — which is why I jumped at the opportunity to work with horticultural ...

If you decide to make your backyard into a forest of succulent trees, you might not get much shade, but you will probably never need to worry about irrigation or pruning. Moreover, you might ...

Imagine, for a second, the rhythms of the Sonoran Desert across a full year. Cactus petals unfolding in symphony. The hum of construction in the distance. Chollas standing tall as if in a waltz. A ...

It didn't seem like very fortuitous timing. How could it be that, with only a handful of rainy days all season long, the Desert Horticultural Society's 18th annual Community Garden Day would happen to ...

I have a pastry chef crush on Marisa Lown of Gertrude’s, the new(ish) cafe at the Desert Botanical Garden. Her pastry is straightforward, creative, and thoughtful. Marisa is bringing a unique touch ...