Arizona Desert Botanical Garden

After a smooth flight from Vancouver to Phoenix, we stepped out of the air conditioned airport and into a sizzling hot Arizona afternoon. We loaded up the car and headed directly to the Desert Botanical Garden for lunch. With picture-perfect blue skies and Nestled amid the red buttes of Arizona's Papago Park, the Desert Botanical Garden is home to one of the world's most amazing collections of desert plants. This museum, which is one of only 44 botanical gardens accredited by the American Association of It was karmic goodness that they came to Arizona while Rogers' ginormous bugs were here. While I probably would have taken them to the Desert Botanical Garden anyway, it being the epitome of the desert Southwest and generally being considered one of the Celebrate spring by watching the butterflies flutter by at the Desert Botanical Garden of Phoenix, Arizona during their Spring Butterfly Exhibit, now through May 13. Admission is $3.50 in addition to General Admission. Consider staying at the gardens until On April 27, 2013 the Desert Botanical Garden hosted 621 guests at the 27th annual Dinner on the Desert, the Garden’s major annual fundraiser. Co-Chaired by Jan and Tom Lewis the event theme A Garden for all Seasonshonored the Garden’s timeless beauty For more than 70 years, the Desert Botanical Garden has been teaching and inspiring visitors 362 days a year in high Arizona temperatures. They needed fast machines that could withstand the heat during both the day and at night when the air .

“There’s won’t be much to see, and people shouldn’t come to Arizona just for the wildflowers,” she said. The Desert Botanical Garden plans to launch a website March 1 that will provide updates of the best bloom sites. And while Mother Nature hasn .

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