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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. DBG1_170714_012.JPG: Desert Botanical Garden
2. DBG1_170714_085.JPG: Oh baby it's hot outside... Why is there cloth on some of the plants?
3. DBG1_170714_163.JPG: What is a Cactus?
4. DBG1_170714_190.JPG: Berlin Agave Yucca Forest
5. DBG1_170714_193.JPG: Moon
6. DBG1_170714_229.JPG: The Earth Has Been Good to Us by Mashford Kanyemba
7. DBG1_170714_254.JPG: Giant Mexican Cardon Look up! The cardon towering over you is one of the Garden's very first plants: more than 75 years old. When director George Lindsay collected these cardons in Baja, they were less than five feet tall.
8. DBG1_170714_268.JPG: Webster Auditorium
9. DBG1_170714_285.JPG: Oscar Strobel 1939
10. DBG1_170714_293.JPG: Have You Seen Me?
11. DBG1_170714_315.JPG: The Sonoran Desert
12. DBG1_170714_334.JPG: Does the Cholla Cactus Really Jump? No, but it may seem like it does!
13. DBG1_170714_350.JPG: The moon again
14. DBG1_170714_356.JPG: Does the Barrel Cactus Contain Water?
15. DBG1_170714_365.JPG: Why is the Saguaro Cactus Growing Under the Palo Verde Tree?
16. DBG1_170714_370.JPG: Yeah, I know, I kept fixating on that moon
17. DBG1_170714_374.JPG: Can You Find These Mountains?
18. DBG1_170714_387.JPG: Why Does the Saguaro Cactus Have Ribs?
19. DBG1_170714_396.JPG: Why Does the Palo Verde Tree Have Green Bark?
20. DBG1_170714_403.JPG: Notice the cactus growing under this bursage bush
21. DBG1_170714_407.JPG: Why do Woodpeckers Peck Holes in the Saguaro Cactus?
22. DBG1_170714_452.JPG: Plants and People of the Sonoran Desert
23. DBG2_170714_001.JPG: Sonoran Desert
24. DBG2_170714_003.JPG: The Habitats of the Sonoran Desert
25. DBG2_170714_006.JPG: Ethnobotany
26. DBG2_170714_011.JPG: You are entering the Desert Habitat
27. DBG2_170714_014.JPG: Saguaro Harvesting
28. DBG2_170714_021.JPG: You are entering the Desert Oasis
29. DBG2_170714_042.JPG: Akimel O'odham Household
30. DBG2_170714_049.JPG: Akimel O'odham Kitchen (Ko:sin)
31. DBG2_170714_056.JPG: You are entering the Mesquite Bosque
32. DBG2_170714_060.JPG: You are entering the Semidesert Grassland
33. DBG2_170714_102.JPG: Baskets
34. DBG2_170714_105.JPG: You are entering the Chaparral
35. DBG2_170714_111.JPG: Western Apache Household
36. DBG2_170714_116.JPG: Agave Roasting Pit
37. DBG2_170714_120.JPG: Spanish Gardens
38. DBG2_170714_127.JPG: Orchards
39. DBG2_170714_128.JPG: Mesquite Corral
40. DBG2_170714_153.JPG: Hazel Hare Center for Plant Science
41. DBG2_170714_156.JPG: Succulence
42. DBG2_170714_165.JPG: Looks Can be Deceiving
43. DBG2_170714_173.JPG: Looks Can be Deceiving
44. DBG2_170714_188.JPG: Improving the Odds
45. DBG2_170714_191.JPG: A Global Strategy
46. DBG2_170714_211.JPG: Evolution of Plants
47. DBG2_170714_215.JPG: Origins of Cacti
48. DBG2_170714_225.JPG: What is a Cactus?
49. DBG2_170714_230.JPG: It's in the Genes
50. DBG2_170714_236.JPG: Life Goes On: Natural Selection
51. DBG2_170714_243.JPG: The Missing Link?
52. DBG2_170714_290.JPG: The Archer House -- 1952 Erected by Benefactor Lou Ella Archer as a staff residence
53. DBG2_170714_412.JPG: What Flowers Attract Butterflies?
54. DBG2_170714_424.JPG: The Ween and the Milkweed
55. DBG2_170714_434.JPG: Where Are Seeds Formed: In the Pistil or the Stamens?
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Wikipedia Description: Desert Botanical Garden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Desert Botanical Garden is a 140 acres (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 and established at this site in 1939, the garden now has more than 21,000 plants, in more than 4000 taxa, one-third of which are native to the area, including 139 species which are rare, threatened or endangered.

Of special note are the rich collections of agave (176 taxa) and cacti (10,350 plants in 1,350 taxa), especially the Opuntia sub-family. Plants from less extreme climate conditions are protected under shadehouses. It focuses on plants adapted to desert conditions, including an Australian collection, a Baja California collection and a South American collection. Several ecosystems are represented: a mesquite bosque, semidesert grassland, and upland chaparral.

The Desert Botanical Garden has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride.

History

In the 1930s, a small group of local citizens became interested in conserving the fragile desert environment. One was Swedish botanist Gustaf Starck, who found like-minded residents by posting a sign, “Save the desert,” with an arrow pointing to his home. In 1936, they formed the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society (ACNFS) to sponsor a botanical garden to encourage an understanding, appreciation and promotion of the uniqueness of the world’s deserts, particularly the local Sonoran Desert.

Eventually Gertrude Webster, whose home encompassed all of what is today the neighborhood of Arcadia, joined the Society. She offered her encouragement, connections and financial support to establish the botanical garden in Papago Park.

She served as president of the Society’s first Board of Directors and Gustaf Starck, W. E. Walker, Rell Hasket, L. L. Kreigbaum, and Samuel Wilson were the five vice president. The latter also served as Treasurer. Paul G. Olsen was Secretary. In 1938, after much work by the ACNFS, the board hired the Garden’s first executive director, George Lindsay, who oversaw the first planting on the grounds. The Desert Botanical Garden opened in 1939 as a non-profit museum dedicated to research, education, conservation and display of desert plants.
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