It is one particular of only three dozen botanical gardens in the country which is accredited by the American Association of Museums. It is the world's only botanical garden which focuses fully on desert vegetation, and just one of the extremely couple of botanical gardens whose collections contain residing specimums, an herbarium, a lot of uncommon, threatened and endangered species, and a huge library. The Desert Botanical Backyard was founded in 1939 by Mrs. Gertrude D.Webster, who was an environmentalist way ahead of her time.

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