We look forward to creating a unique and memorable experience for your guests. Complimentary parking and admission for your guests is also provided for your convenience. Explore the restaurant and cafe options available at Gertrude's Desert Botanical Garden Restaurant & the Patio Cafe. You can create your own customized menu from our preferred list of caterers. Our experienced on-site venue planners will work closely with you to customize your event with private guided tours, desert activities, and personal touches. Chart a new course as your group enjoys team-building activities, breakout sessions, lunch, sit-down dinner or cocktail party set outdoors amongst our exotic collection of desert flora. Picture your next business meeting, board retreat, or conference in one of our unique conference rooms, auditorium or hall. During these 13 intensive months I will be building my competencies, traits, and behaviors to become a self-aware public speaker, team developer, strategic. Once you have seen the beauty of the Garden, you will know why it's a "natural" choice for both business and networking events. Discover the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, and experience the vibrant tranquility of desert plants nestled amid the red rocks of the Sonoran Desert. We invite you to tour Desert Botanical Garden and discover our indoor and outdoor spaces which include open-air pavilions, scenic courtyards and historic settings. The Garden features 6 venues that can accommodate from 5 - 500 guests and is also available for buy-outs. When you hold your event with us, you are supporting a nonprofit organization whose mission for the community is to advance excellence in education, research, exhibition, and conservation of desert plants of the world with emphasis on the Southwestern United States. We'll return next year.Green since 1939, the Desert Botanical Garden is available for day and evening events. Many docents were available to guide and answer questions. Some cacti were for sale outside the door, but no orchids and nothing to grow orchids. It's worth a stroll through the gift shop for botanical garden related collectibles. One star was lost due to service and confusion.Īnd, last but not least, one enters, pays the fee in the gift shop and gets a sticker to wear for the day.
The description and menu for the cafe made it sound more enticing than it tasted. Many trees will offer up shade soon.Īnother area, the kitchen garden, grows a variety of edibles for the Cafe Botanica, on location. Desert Botanical Garden is partnering with Ebone Muse Johnson to bring a special storytelling event to the Garden. Most trees were not leafed out yet, but it was 80 degrees and felt good with all the other plants in there. Many wonderful gardens of cacti, lots from Africa, Mexico and the rest of Latin America. He co-founded Native Seeds/SEARCH, served as director of conservation, research, and collections at both the Desert Botanical Garden and Sonora Desert. It required 2 strolls through the gardens for us to come close to seeing what was there this early March day. With so many visual treats, one might say that visiting the gardens is a meditative experience.right in the middle of Tucson! The chrysalis building displayed suspended chrysalis in various stages of "coming out." One beautiful butterfly was about to shed the last of the paper and take wing. When they arrive for the winter, they've spent the prior months somewhere more suitable for them for the fall or longer. The orchids hang out all year, along with the fish, but the butterflies are so rare/exotics they are caught, chilled down and transported to another butterfly center in the U.S. sound effects and music blaring from tinny hidden speakers - that make for the best small world tour this side of Disney. A small stream in the center is home to 2 varieties of cychlids, beautiful small swimmers, darting midst the flora and fauna.īack to the orchids, one enormous, hanging orchid must have sported 20 spikes of blooms it was a sight to behold.
Besides the butterfly garden, the butterfly pavilion, a very warm and humid, specifically designed building, was on display, rare and exotic butterflies, moths, even a praying mantis midst the jungle of orchids, vines and other enticing blooms. Butterflies in the desert? They love the desert blooms and this time of year in Tucson, plants are offering up every color of bloom to the sun.
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