Phoenix Attractions
Guayacan flowers
Desert Botanical Garden
If you don't particularly like cacti before your visit, there is
a good chance you'll fall in love with them by the time you leave.
These gardens get high ratings not only for the size and range of
the botanical collection - 21,000 plants, including 139 species -
but due the inventive way visitors get to experience them. Founded
in 1939, the garden provides visitors with a fascinating and
colourful introduction to the ethnobotany of the region. A
highlight is the Plants and People of the Sonoran Desert Trail
which allows you to make your own yucca-fibre brush and grind corn
as the Native Americans once did. Over November and December the
gardens are lit up at night by beautiful
luminarias (candles
inside small bags).
Address: 1201 N. Galvin Pkwy;
Website: www.dbg.org;
Telephone: (480) 941-1225;
Opening time: October to April: 8am to 8pm; May to SeptemberL: 7am to 8pm;
Admission: $15 (adults), $13.50 (seniors), $5 (children)
