While the gardens boast a multitude of stunning flora, including a diverse range of cacti and desert plants, there are other attractions to appreciate. The Desert Botanical Garden offers a delightful escape into nature's wonders, even for those who may not have a particular interest in plant life. Not my idea of an enjoyable stroll through nature. Perhaps it was the Chihuly draw, but the garden was packed with people, lines to enter the garden, and more lines once in the park. Would I come back without Chiulhy? Maybe. I will not return to Desert Botanical for another experience of Chihuly. My experience with Chihuly at a lesser known garden - Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, Mi - was also more positive than Deser Botanical's installation.
Few installations fit the local terrain or provided a contrast that enhanced the desert environment. The color choice for Desert Botanical Gardens was odd - almost exclusively the most garish of Chilhuly's color options. As another widely respected botanical garden, Dessert Botanical should compete with Kew for installations that were more creative and better fitted to the environment than displayed in Phoenix. I've seen much better exhibits of Chihuly at Kew Gardens. Even for two seniors, I felt it was overpriced. We met families who decided to forgo the Gardens when the visit would have ended up costing over $100 for the group. Required Chihuly tickets also made the visit too expensive for many visitors. Sorry to be the nay sayer, but I found the Chihuly exhibit extremely disappointing. This shows a nice side of Phoenix and as a desert geek by highly recommend going I know it can be crowded at times but maybe you can check and find what times are less crowded when we went it wasn't too bad. Several that are indoor are in darkened rooms which make for a even more extraordinary presentation. For the third time, Dale Chihuly is back to the Sonoran Desert to showcase his stunning masterpieces at the Garden-the remarkable Chihuly glass exhibit has 18 different installations both indoor and outdoor and just amazing to see.
I know they work hard too have a butterfly garden as well which would be lots of fun to see. I certainly would go to the spring wildflower viewing once the cactuses started to Bloom and maybe some of the desert wildflowers started to bloom. They had an upcoming scavenger hunt for the kids which would help them learn to identify the different plants in the Botanical garden.
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They have activities designed specifically for children to help them learn how to garden. I think every time you would visit you would find something new that you hadn't seen before 55 acres is quite a lot.
There are lots of wonderful photographic opportunities. If I had a membership it'd be kind of a fun date to go back in the evening to see how the light displays the glass exhibits ( I think that's once a month). I felt lucky because really the exhibit is only around till June although there is some permanent displays that he donated to the desert botanical garden. Not only did we see the wonderful botanical exhibits representing the Southwest and desert countries around the world we are able to see the Chihuly glass exhibit at the Desert Botanical Garden. It's a wonderful experience and I'm sure I just got a taste of it we spend about four hours there. Had a very nice friend take me as a guest with her membership.
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