A Culinary Oasis
Celebrated for its thermal waters, Castle Hot Springs is also a gourmand’s getaway.
Botero in the Desert
Desert Botanical Garden brings the works of famed Colombian artist Fernando Botero to Arizona.
A Picture Plants a Thousand Words
Photographer Jimmy W. Fike has spent the past 15 years creating a photographic archive depicting America’s rich trove of wild edible flora. To date, the project has taken him to 16 different states and allowed him to amass a collection of more than 175 specimens.
(Almost) Too Pretty to Eat
Phoenix gardener Emily Heller’s edible flowers add color and joy to your plate.
Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Arizona is home to the largest rose garden in the Southwest — a public space at Mesa Community College that is open year-round as a living laboratory and a place of beauty that celebrates the rose as a national floral emblem; promotes education and community involvement; attracts cultural events; and provides a resource for partnership, volunteerism and the testing of new roses.
Backyard Blooms
Arizona’s gardening community is full of flower-growing enthusiasts who have found connections on social media — particularly Instagram — where they share photos of seedlings to bouquets as well as trade tips and even seeds.
It Takes a Village… of Vegetables
Established in 1976 by former Scottsdale resident Mark Miller, the Scottsdale Community Garden Club occupies about seven acres at the northeast corner of the Scottsdale Community College campus. More than 200 garden members and co-gardeners bring 186 plots to life with green lettuce, red tomatoes, yellow squash, white cauliflower and everything in between.