Nestled amid the red buttes of Papago Park, the Desert Botanical Garden hosts one of the world’s finest collections of desert plants.

Promotes responsible and appropriate use of plants and water in a desert environment through education and demonstration.

While most of the park remains natural desert, a variety of specialty gardens can be found.

Boasts trees and unique plants from arid climates around the world. Seasonal cues such as soil temperature, rainfall, or the presence of pollinators will induce flowering.

Over 380,000 specimens, ARIZ is the largest herbarium in the arid southwest and unique in having the largest collection in the world of plants from Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.

A treasury of glorious public and private gardens for garden lovers to visit!

Botanic gardens as a co-operating global network for effective plant conservation. It now links over 2500 institutions in over 120 countries, all working together to preserve and promote plant diversity for people and the planet.