Sonoran Quarterly

March 2011, Volume 65, No. 1

Online Extras

Saguaro You Today?

By: Tom Gatz, Garden Docent and Horticulture Aide

That is a bumper sticker greeting you will find in All About Saguaros, the title of an Arizona Highways book by Leo W. Banks, published in 2008 and available in the Desert Botanical Garden gift shop. Here is just a sampling of the information in...read more

HOW OLD IS THAT SAGUARO? 

By: Tom Gatz, Garden Docent and Horticulture Aide

SHORT ANSWER: Unless it was grown from seed, and someone kept tabs on it, no one knows for sure.

The much longer answer to one of the most commonly asked question by visitors to the Desert Botanical Garden is that on average and under the natural conditions existing just west of Tucson with 10 inches of rainfall annually, a saguaro...read more