outdoors in summerat a botanic garden with white hydrandra flowers with green leaves and a butterfly wing in the backgrouund

Hydrangeas have been around North America longer than the U.S. has existed. These flowers have fossils that date back to 40 million years ago found in North America, showing they’ve been growing and surviving here for quite some time. Hydrangeas were originally cultivated in Japan, and they did not appear […]

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indoors at a botanicl garden outside a gift shop with items for sale like clothes, purses, lamps and more.

For my intern leadership experience, my boss, Val Throne, and I went to the gift market in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was my job to pick products, quantity, cost, and display the products purchased. Val and I decided it was appropriate to focus on recycled or repurposed products due to the […]

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indoors at a botanicl garden outside a gift shop with items for sale like clothes, purses, lamps and home decor.

Every year our garden has a new theme to keep Reiman Gardens’ look and plants different. With the change of theme comes new decorations, new plants, new classes, and speakers. This year the theme at the Gardens is water. Guests can see the Washed Ashore sculptures throughout the Gardens that […]

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botanical garden intern smiling in front of the Des Moines Botanical Garden

Hi I am Emma Kachelmeyer, and I am the Retail Management Intern here at Reiman Gardens this summer. I am going to be a junior next semester in Apparel Merchandising, and I’ve recently completed my French Minor. I am very excited to participate in this internship because, aside from my […]

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