Desert Marigold
Baileya multiradiata
Cheerful golden-yellow blooms nearly year-round on silvery foliage. A magnet for butterflies and one of the easiest desert wildflowers to grow from seed.
Beginner favorite
Native Plant Seed Pack Program
Bring the Sonoran Desert back to your yard
Free packs of native Arizona wildflower seeds for homes across the state — drought-tolerant, pollinator-friendly, and free to the community.
🌵 Drought-tolerant natives
🐝 Feeds bees & hummingbirds
🎁 100% free to the community
The Mission
Less thirsty turf. More living desert.
We grow and give away free seed packs of native Sonoran Desert plants to Arizona homeowners. Every pack replaces a patch of thirsty, imported landscaping with wildflowers that evolved right here — plants that thrive on monsoon rain and feed the pollinators, hummingbirds, and native bees our desert depends on.
One yard at a time, we're stitching habitat back together across Arizona — and your donation is what fills the seed packs.
The Plants
Five natives in every pack
Each species is hand-selected for Arizona yards: tough, beautiful, and loved by wildlife.
Mexican Gold Poppy
Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana
Sheets of glowing orange across the desert floor every spring — Arizona's easiest, fastest native annual. Scatter in fall, water, and watch it carpet the ground.
Easiest from seedBrittlebush
Encelia farinosa
Silvery mounds crowned in golden daisies every spring — the hillside glow of the Sonoran Desert. Extremely drought-hardy and nearly carefree.
Nearly carefreeParry's Penstemon
Penstemon parryi
Tall wands of hot-pink trumpet flowers in early spring — a hummingbird favorite. Sow in fall, then enjoy the show with almost no effort.
Hummingbird favoriteDesert Bluebells
Phacelia campanularia
Electric cobalt-blue cups on coiled stems — a rare true blue in the desert and an absolute native-bee magnet. Easy, fast, and unforgettable in bloom.
Native bee magnet
How It Works
From your gift to an Arizona garden
1
You donate
Every dollar goes toward seed, soil, and packaging. $10 is all it takes to fund a complete five-species seed pack.
2
We grow & package
Our team collects, cleans, and hand-packages locally sourced native seed with planting instructions written for first-time desert gardeners.
3
Free packs go to homes
Seed packs ship free to homes across Arizona and hand out at community events — no cost, no catch, just more desert.
Donate
Fund the next seed pack
Choose a tier below — checkout is handled securely by PayPal Giving Fund, and every gift is tax-deductible.
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$50
Pollinator Patch
Six packs — enough to turn a whole block into a pollinator pit stop.
Donate $50Prefer a custom amount or monthly giving? Visit our main donation page. Copper Sanctuary is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 33-3319870.
For Arizona Residents
Request a free seed pack
Live in Arizona? Tell us where to send your pack. Each one includes all five native species plus simple planting instructions timed to our desert seasons.
- Completely free — funded by donors like you
- Five native Sonoran Desert species per pack
- Beginner-friendly planting guide included
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