What is the best time of year to visit BTA? When can we see the most flowering plants?
Right now is the best time. You can enjoy the beautiful scenery, the abundant wildlife, and there is always something blooming even in the summer as well as the coldest months from late November-through-January when you will find flowers blooming in the Demonstration Garden, the Hummingbird-Butterfly Garden (until the first hard frost) and the Children’s Garden. Spring flowers are at their peak in March and April into early May, and cactus blossoms are prime during April and May though they continue sporadically into mid-Summer when the native fish hook barrels bloom. Call our staff at (520) 689-2723 during daytime business hours to ask about plants flowering during other seasons. The Arboretum is famous in Arizona for its Fall foliage which you’ll see from mid-November through the first week of December. There are always abundant birds around but during the winter months (December, January, February) we have seasonal migrant birds passing through. The hot summer months are the ideal t
