One of the most innovative museums in the world has opened its doors for a photographic tour of the natural gardens and habitats of their expansive landscape in the Arizona-Sonora Desert Region. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a world-renowned zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden set in the Tucson Mountains outside Tucson, AZ. Their ecogological exhibits feature native plants and animals together and recreates the natural landscape of the Sonora Desert Region.

This beautifully photographed, full-color coffee table book takes readers through history, landscapes, and gardens featuring nature at its best in themed specialty garden settings. Featured gardens highlight the more than 1400 plants and grasses including a succulent garden with a variety of cacti and agave, habitat gardens of Mountain, Woodland, Grassland, Foothills and demonstration gardens as well as images of the native, endangered or rare species of plants.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Museum contributors include Richard C. Brusca Museum Director, Mark A. Dimmitt, Director of Natural History and George Montgomery Curator of Botany.