Sawtooth Botanical Garden, Botanical garden in Ketchum, Idaho, US

Sawtooth Botanical Garden is a five-acre botanical garden in Ketchum that recreates the natural habitats of south-central Idaho. The property displays distinct ecosystem zones including sagebrush steppe, lava rock areas, alpine regions, mountain forests, and riparian corridors with native plantings throughout.

The garden was founded in 1994. In August 2005, the Garden of Infinite Compassion was built for the visit of the 14th Dalai Lama on September 13, 2005; landscape designer Martin Mosko, a Zen Buddhist monk and abbot of the Hakubai Temple in Boulder, Colorado, designed it as an alpine garden with a waterfall, a reflecting pond and 16 rocks of up to 30 tons representing the 16 Buddhist arhats.

The Garden of Infinite Compassion, built in August 2005, was designed by landscape designer Martin Mosko, a Zen Buddhist monk and abbot of the Hakubai Temple in Boulder, Colorado. It was made for the 14th Dalai Lama's visit on September 13, 2005, when he blessed the garden and its carved Tibetan prayer wheel.

The garden is open from sunrise to sunset daily and accessible year-round throughout all seasons. Visitors should prepare for changing mountain weather and wear sturdy shoes suitable for varied terrain.

The prayer wheel in the Garden of Infinite Compassion holds over one million written mantras and weighs 400 pounds. It is one of only two such wheels erected in the United States, and the stream turns it instead of a hand.