Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona | DBG

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Desert Botanical Garden

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Open Nightly Until 9 p.m. Starting Feb. 13

Experience Garden: After Dark, where the desert shines brighter, the trails glow with color and FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse creates a perfect nighttime escape.

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Open Nightly Until 9 p.m. Starting Feb. 13

Experience Garden: After Dark, where the desert shines brighter, the trails glow with color and FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse creates a perfect nighttime escape.

Find Your Experience

In search of a stroller friendly day with the family, the perfect date-night spot or a place to enjoy the local music scene? Look no further than Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.

Framerate: Desert Pulse

Now - May 10, 2026

Desert Pulse, a multi-sensory art exhibit, by ScanLAB Projects, immerses visitors in the visual and emotional energy of the Sonoran Desert.

Black Love: The Exhale Presented by Centered.PHX

Feb. 7

Black Love: The Exhale is a storytelling and live music experience that celebrates the richness, resilience and range of Black love in the heart of the desert.

Mark Klett: Desert Citizens

Now - Sept. 7

Experience the Sonoran Desert through the lens of award-winning Arizona landscape photographer Mark Klett. With a career spanning more than four decades, Klett reframes our notions of time, cultural memory and the land around us.

Dog Days at the Garden

Feb. 7, 14, 28 | March 14, 21, 28 | April 4, 11, 18 | May 2, 9

Enjoy a weekend excursion with your four-legged friend through the Garden’s trails. A paw-fect place to enjoy the outdoors together with some great photo opps.

Garden: After Dark

Feb. 13- May 10

Experience Garden: After Dark, where the desert shines brighter, the trails glow with color and Desert Pulse creates a perfect nighttime escape.

Value day pricing is back!

Plan Ahead and Save! Ticket prices vary based on date. Choose the day that works best for your budget or schedule.

Plus, buy online to get the lowest ticket prices.

Your Garden at Home

Explore Your Garden at Home for activities, stories of conservation, plants in bloom and more.

Celebrating 50 Years of Planting Together

This year marks a remarkable milestone, the 50th anniversary of Desert Botanical Garden biannual Plant Sale.

32 New Saguaros Added on Desert Botanical Garden Trails

Each year, Desert Botanical Garden’s horticulture team carries out a saguaro succession planting, an essential effort to replace saguaros lost to storms, rot or other natural impacts.

Black Love as Black History. Experience Black Love: The Exhale on Feb. 7

Love will bloom at Desert Botanical Garden for Black History Month at Black Love: The Exhale Presented by Centered.PHX on Feb. 7

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Explore The Beauty

Think the desert is all dirt and tumbleweeds? Think again. Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cactus, trees and flowers from all around the world spread across 55 acres in Phoenix, Arizona.

SUPPORT THE GARDEN YOU TREASURE

Your partnership fuels the Garden’s most important work: pioneering desert‑resilient research, restoring Monarch habitats and protecting cactus and desert plants.
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