In landscape architecture, we call it “a sense of place” when a garden becomes a monument. In a modern world where few privately held venues like Moorten Botanical Garden survive, this extraordinary ...

This Californio learned her horticulture in the north state, and in Southern California at Roger’s Gardens in the ’80s. Nothing prepared me for the palette of plants I encountered after moving to Palm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clark Moorten, 80, walks through Moorten Botanical Garden in Palm Springs, a legacy he inherited from his parents, Chester "Cactus ...

From the archive: This story first published in The Desert Sun in 2016. Millennials have discovered Moorten Botanical Garden. They're reading about it and sharing their amazing photos in travel blogs ...

When all my Coachella Valley "friends" post fabulous pictures of palm trees with Jacinto white to low elevations, I know we'll see frost damage. Clark Moorten, a Palm Springs native and owner of ...

Enter Moorten Botanical Garden in the Mesa neighborhood of south Palm Springs and you’re on a different clock, in a different time. It’s just an acre or so of mature, artfully arranged cactuses and ...

Clark Moorten, 80, walks through Moorten Botanical Garden in Palm Springs, a legacy he inherited from his parents, Chester "Cactus Slim" and Patricia Moorten, who created the garden in the late 1930s.