Tucson Botanical Gardens
Tucson Botanical Gardens connects people with plants and nature through art, science, history and culture. Enjoy 20 curated garden spaces, plant collections from across the world, year-round exhibits and cultural events.
Category: 501(c) 3 Organization
Discipline: Visual arts
Program Affiliations: Arts Foundation Grantees
About Tucson Botanical Gardens
With a collection of trees, cacti, and flowering plants from around the world, there are blooms, pollinators, and birds of interest all year long at Tucson Botanical Gardens (TBG). Garden rooms include an Herb Garden, Sensory Ramadas, and a collection of Cacti and Succulents from deserts across the globe. There are demonstration gardens with native crops, composting, and permaculture, and Nuestro Jardín, our quintessential Mexican-American barrio garden.
In addition to the pure delight of color, fragrance, and design in the Gardens, interpretive signage and educational activities for adults and children provide learning opportunities for visitors of all ages. Art exhibits are on display in the grounds and indoor galleries.
The Great Garden Express model railway set in an Arizona Sky Island landscape includes a collection of monuments and buildings with architectural details rendered in natural objects such as seed pods and acorns.
Seasonally, Butterfly Magic showcases tropical butterflies and exotic orchids. During the holidays, the Gardens is transformed into a wonderland of luminarias, traditional tin stars, and dancing trees for LightsUp! A Festival of Illumination.
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Nuestro Jardín or Barrio Garden highlights color, culinary and medicinal plants, and found and repurposed ornamental objects.
Nuestro Jardín
Tucson Botanical Gardens’ Nuestro Jardín, the Barrio Garden, honors Tucson’s traditional Mexican-American neighborhood gardens with a charming and colorful display of flowers, trees, and herbs commonly found in backyard gardens. Throughout you’ll find everyday objects repurposed into planters, small adornments and charms hanging from branches, and an ofrenda (altar) with offerings to loved ones.
A modernist garden, representative of the work of landscape architect, Roberto Burle Marx.
Roberto Burle Marx Garden
This modernist garden space is inspired by Brazilian Landscape Architect, Roberto Burle Marx. His designs integrate water gardens, tropical gardens, and urban landscaping. Burle Marx is known for the juxtaposition of cement and metal structures, colorful plants and water feature installations
Tucson Botanical Gardens’ LightsUp! A Festival of Illumination, features ironwork luminaria sculptures and chandeliers.
LightsUp! A Festival of Illumination
LightsUp! is a unique, mile-long immersive experience based on the traditions of the Southwest's luminarias. It is a professionally designed and curated installation with over one million LED lights and handmade artistic features created by artisans.
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