Desert Botanical Garden
Saguaros under the red Papago Buttes, palo verde, ironwood and creosote on the nature loop, a spring carpet of poppies and desert marigolds, and an adobe house with fields of corn, beans and squash.
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| Inspired by | Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix, Arizona) |
|---|---|
| Size | 112 × 80 m |
| Latitude | 33.5° N |
| Climate | arid |
| Plants | 422 plants of 36 species |
Gardens and biomes
- Sonoran desert upland
- Cactus and agave galleries
- Desert wildflowers
- Plants and people (fields, ramada, adobe)
- Mesquite bosque
- Desert living
Landmarks, buildings and water
- Desert floor (decomposed granite)
- Papago Butte (red sandstone)
- Butte outcrop (red sandstone)
- Entry plaza
- Main trail
- Webster Auditorium (1939)
- Ottosen Entry Garden (decomposed granite)
- Desert Discovery Loop
- Shadehouse (cacti and succulents)
- Shadehouse benches
- Sonoran Desert Nature Loop
- Adobe house
- Ramada (shade shelter)
- O’odham-style flood fields (three sisters)
- Desert Wildflower Loop
- Agave and Yucca Forest trail
- Center for Desert Living (desert-adapted edibles)
- Desert house (rammed earth)
Plants in this garden
- Adam's needle (yucca) Yucca filamentosa · 8
- Aloe vera Aloe vera · 10
- Bitter aloe (Cape aloe) Aloe ferox · 4
- Blue palo verde Parkinsonia florida · 9
- Brittlebush Encelia farinosa · 32
- Bush bean Phaseolus vulgaris · 10
- Butternut squash Cucurbita moschata · 10
- California poppy Eschscholzia californica · 40
- Century plant (agave) Agave americana · 12
- Chili pepper Capsicum annuum (hot types) · 8
- Common fig Ficus carica · 2
- Creosote bush Larrea tridentata · 18
- Date palm Phoenix dactylifera · 2
- Desert ironwood Olneya tesota · 3
- Desert marigold Baileya multiradiata · 32
- Desert spoon (sotol) Dasylirion wheeleri · 15
- Engelmann's prickly pear Opuntia engelmannii · 12
- Fishhook barrel cactus Ferocactus wislizeni · 18
- Golden barrel cactus Echinocactus grusonii · 30
- Jade plant Crassula ovata · 3
- Joshua tree Yucca brevifolia · 4
- Madagascar palm Pachypodium lamerei · 4
- Mexican giant cardón Pachycereus pringlei · 1
- Mexican snowball (echeveria) Echeveria elegans · 20
- Ocotillo Fouquieria splendens · 12
- Organ pipe cactus Stenocereus thurberi · 1
- Parry's agave Agave parryi · 28
- Parry's penstemon Penstemon parryi · 24
- Pomegranate Punica granatum · 3
- Prickly pear (nopal) Opuntia ficus-indica · 3
- Quiver tree (kokerboom) Aloidendron dichotomum · 1
- Rosemary Salvia rosmarinus · 4
- Saguaro Carnegiea gigantea · 10
- Sweet corn Zea mays var. saccharata · 10
- Teddy-bear cholla Cylindropuntia bigelovii · 15
- Velvet mesquite Prosopis velutina · 4
A design inspired by Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix, Arizona), scaled to fit, built from Garden ME's reference plant data. It is not a survey or a map of the real garden.