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Index > Essentials :: Demonstration+Botanic Gardens

Looking for some landscape ideas but don't know where to start? The landscapes listed below are intended to show the public different design ideas and plants that merit more use. Not all are going to be to everyone's liking, let alone exhibit water-conserving principles everywhere. They looked acceptable at publication, but that could change. Please exercise safe and courteous driving. 

With Links
+ Chihuahuan Desert Gardens: a series of gardens featuring Chihuahuan Desert native plants, with some great stonework and architecture
(University and Wiggins, UTEP, El Paso TX, 915-747-5565)
+ Arizona - Sonora Desert Museum (Tucson): a world-class zoo / botanic garden of native plants and wildlife to the Sonoran Desert
+ Tohono Chul Park (Tucson): a garden celebrating great design, pleasant spaces, cultural plant use for crops and ornamentals, and even a great outdoor tea house
+ Boyce - Thompson Arboretum (east of Phoenix): great natural setting w/ plants
+ Denver Botanic Gardens (Denver): well-designed gardens, some very xeric
+ Rio Grande Botanic Gardens: hardy plants to the Albuquerque are confined mostly to the conservatory area, including cacti / shrubs from local and global deserts
(2601 Central Av NW, Albuquerque NM, 505-764-6200)

Without Links
+ Wyoming Library and Rose Garden: some regionally and locally native plants of the Rose family are used as structure, along with some evergreen oaks
(8205 Apache NE, Albuquerque NM)
+ Texas A & M Research and Extension Station: many native and adapted plants to the Chihuahuan Desert region, many growing without irrigation; studies ongoing to measure plant water use for our region
(13880 A&M Circle El Paso TX, 915-859-9111)