![]() 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. 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 ![]()
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