
While serving as director of horticulture for the Desert Botanical Garden, Mazier was responsible for the Garden's 20,000 accessioned and 20,000 non-accessioned desert plant collections from all over the world. Additionally, he was selected by the government of Hidalgo, Mexico to identify plant specimens, and make recommendations on plant selections and placements for the creation of a government-funded ecological park and botanical garden. which was in the way of a road expansion. Mazier has successfully transplanted hundreds of saguaro plants, and his largest was a triple-trunk 38 foot, 42 ton saguaro for the Town of Oro Valley, Ariz. has embarked include residential and commercial landscape consultations, landscape and hardscape designs, as well as landscape and hardscape installation and renovation projects in the Phoenix, Tucson and northern Arizona areas. To date, projects in which César Mazier Landscaping & Consulting, Inc. The landscaping and consulting company is dedicated to preserving the subtle beauty of the Sonoran Desert, introducing the importance of desert landscaping into hardscapes, and providing exceptional customer service through design, landscaping installation, and consultation of native desert landscapes. Service: Our waitress was attentive, accommodating, and entertaining.César Mazier is president of César Mazier Landscaping & Consulting, Inc., a company he founded in 2002 after serving 16 years as director of horticulture for the Desert Botanical Garden. If every desert rose has its thorn, Gertrude's can only be its somewhat high prices. You can't beat the naturally beautiful surroundings and convenient location within the botanical gardens. In retrospect I should have swapped the mimosa for coffee. The toast tasted wonderful with the unique syrup, but it became a bit too sweet for me in combination with the mimosa. The smoky salmon was unforgettably delicious, so it was disappointing to see it replaced with shrimp in the salad on my subsequent visit.įor my second visit my girlfriends and I all ordered French toast with a pretty pink prickly pear syrup, paired with prickly pear mimosas. My first time eating at Gertrude's I enjoyed a smoked salmon arugula salad with fingerling potatoes. Gorgeous views of the gardens abound regardless of whether you're dining indoors or outside on the patio surrounded by succulents. through 55 acres of tulips.or cacti, as it were (ouch!) You'd have to be a "succa" to miss cooling off and refueling here after tiptoeing. Located just past the entrance of the stunning Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, Gertrude's Restaurant is a culinary oasis boasting a seasonally-inspired menu created with ingredients sourced from Arizonan farms. I have never been treated so rudely before and I would not recommend this restaurant to anyone. I said we didn't want to sit so far apart and we got ready to leave, She then said, again with a sneer, something that implied we deserved nothing better. I started to move the chair to one side of the table and she snapped that she was going to use that place for someone at the still empty adjoining table. She then brought us to a table for two which was placed vertically so one person would sit at the window side and the other about fivefert away on a facing chair. The hostess sneered, but offered a table outside or one inside. We are from the east coast and hadn't booked a reservation at Gertrude's but decided to stop in and ask if they had a table available. My husband and I visited the Desert Botanical Gardens yesterday morning, and. However, the hostess was so nasty that I can't help but comment. We never actually got to eat here, and I have never reviewed a place before where I hadn't sampled the food.


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