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Desert Botanical Garden is a 140-acre (57 ha) botanical garden located in Papago Park, at 1201 N. Galvin Parkway in Phoenix, central Arizona.. Founded by the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society in 1937 [1] and established at this site in 1939, the garden now has more than 50,000 plants in more than 4,000 taxa, one-third of which are native to the area, including 379 species which are rare ...
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River . Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and ...
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Arizona is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Arizona. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Name
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre (40 ha) zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952.Located just west of Tucson, Arizona, it features two miles (3.2 km) of walking paths traversing 21 acres (8.5 ha) of desert landscape.
The Tucson Botanical Gardens (TBG) is a 5.5 acre (2.2 ha) collection of 20 gardens in the heart of Tucson, ... Admission: Adults: $15 Students, 62+, Military: $13
The Japanese Friendship Garden is a Japanese stroll garden in Phoenix, Arizona, known as Rohō-en (鷺鳳園) in Japanese. The garden encompasses 3.5 acres (14,000 m 2) and includes a tea garden and tea house. It is a joint project of the sister cities Phoenix and Himeji. In 2004 it was named by the City of Phoenix as one of the Phoenix Points ...
Missouri Botanical Garden staffers will plant 3.5 acres in total for the renovation, including 30,500 individual plants representing 332 individual species. Almost half of the species are native ...
Papago Park is a hilly desert park covering 1200 acres in its Phoenix extent and 296 acres in its Tempe extent. Tempe refers to its section of the park specifically as Tempe Papago Park. Papago Park is notable for its many distinctive geological formations and its wide variety of typical desert plants, including the giant saguaro cactus .