McDowell Sonoran Conservancy: Early History of the Desert Botanical Garden

Please join us with speaker Ron Lieberson as we celebrate the 85th anniversary of the Desert Botanical Garden.

Learn how the visionary Gustaf Starck and the wealthy Gertrude Webster worked together to create a botanical garden devoted exclusively to desert plants. See what the Garden looked like 85 years ago and learn about its first director who worked so hard to get the Garden off to a good start in 1939.