Posted January 20, 2011 by Ann Montague, Horticulturist
Each summer college students from across the country descend on Denver Botanic Gardens to participate in our summer horticulture internship program. And even though there’s still snow on the ground, we’re already booking the fieldtrips and tours for the program.
Designed to help students explore career opportunities in public horticulture, the program immerses students in most every aspect of public horticulture and provides the hands-on experience that employers value.
In addition to educational activities and hands-on gardening, each intern is mentored by one of our professional horticulturists on an independent project. As usual this year’s list of projects covers a wide range of interests. This summer at the Gardens, interns will be:
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Posted July 1, 2010 by Horticulture Intern
It is no secret in horticulture and gardening that plants need water and who knows this better than Joe Tomocik, curator of water gardens, whose waterlilies hardly spend a day out of it.
Once the threat of frost subsided, the empty water beds throughout the garden beg for some flair, and Joe knows just the trick. Calling upon the intern staff to help him out early one morning, he layed in front of us a large bag of waterlilies, some containers of varying sizes (from which we must choose wisely), a pile of clay soil, and told us to have at it.
The interns, ready to go.
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Posted June 30, 2010 by Horticulture Intern
To a Colorado non-native, the the gypsum dust blowing through Eagle County could easily obscure the beautiful wildflowers growing amongst the mountainous anthills and dry lakebeds. Penstemon harringtonii is a rare, showy purple and blue flower limited to the sagebrush steppe in Colorado and limited in number as well. A changing habitat and the ever-so-ambitious human dweller threaten this endemic species.
This year, the horticulture interns joined up with the Gardens research team on their 14-year field study to ensure the future of this plant.
The first study site with gridding in the works
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Posted August 9, 2009 by Sarada Krishnan, Director of Horticulture
L to R: Monica Pell, Tyler Johnson, Aaron Sedivy, Sharon Haan, Kate Watson, Jessica Wright
Each summer, the horticulture department hosts interns who are horticulture students from all over the country. During the ten weeks of their internship, these students become part of our horticulture family getting involved in all departmental activities learning the ins and outs of public horticulture. During the internship each student is assigned a staff mentor and a specific project. In addition to working on their specific projects, they also work in individual gardens, perform group projects, and attend special classes and fieldtrips. Our horticulture internship provides a well-rounded educational experience for horticulture students as they prepare for the next phase of their lives, transitioning from students to professional horticulturists.
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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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