Desert Botanical Garden has welcomed visitors — both from the Valley and beyond — who wanted to see Sonoran Desert plants for more than 80 years.
For the last 24 of them, Ken Schutz has served as executive director. Schutz will step down from that role later this fall.
He joined The Show to talk about his time running the garden, what he sees as the biggest challenges for the next person in the job, and the biggest challenges the next executive director will face in terms of continuing to care for the garden and keep it healthy and even expand it.
Full conversation
MARK BRODIE: You’ve been here almost a quarter of a century. I’m curious, when you took this job, what did you know about desert landscaping?…