The desert landscape, with its vast stretches of golden sands and piercing blue skies, has long captivated the human imagination. Its allure lies not only in its stark beauty but also in the ...

Botanist Gustaf Starck rallied people passionate about preserving desert plants with a sign outside his Scottsdale ranch.

The Desert Botanical Garden, an oasis nestled among the red rocks of Papago Park, turns 86 in February. The idea for a desert garden came from a small group of Valley-based advocates in the 1930s.