Posted December 12, 2009 by Ellen Hertzman, Manager of Volunteer Experience
Why is it that all week I’ve been having visions of palm trees on a tropical island, swaying in a warm breeze? Could it have anything to do with the single-digit temperatures we’ve had lately? We have the next best thing to our own island paradise in the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory—open for thawing out from 9:00-5:00, seven days a week!
Palm trees are everywhere inside our tropical bubble.
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Posted January 27, 2009 by Ellen Hertzman, Manager of Volunteer Experience
January interns in the herbarium
The Gardens welcomed two interns from Oberlin College during the month of January. The young women, who between them are majoring in Plant Biology, History, Creative Writing, and Environmental Studies, lent their energy to numerous projects. They spent time measuring champion trees, finding and creating children’s activities for our upcoming Jurassic Gardens exhibit, working on a Green page for our Web site, archiving old photos and documents in the library, and generally making themselves useful! Here you can see them preparing plants in the Herbarium, where their work will be immortalized in our museum of plant specimens. The interns wanted to learn more about the workings of a botanic gardens; in the process they advanced the work of Denver Botanic Gardens on many fronts!
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