tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60436484489222048092024-02-06T21:33:17.569-08:00From Bud to Blossom: My Internship Adventure Follow me in my experiences at Moore Farms Botanical Garden of Lake City, South Carolina. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17624786022994561898noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043648448922204809.post-12392655382325915202014-08-15T18:23:00.002-07:002014-08-15T18:23:08.909-07:00A Fun Finish<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello again,<br /><br />Today was the last day of my internship here at Moore Farms Botanical Garden. It was bittersweet to say the least, walking through the garden for the last time made me really appreciate and cherish my summer here. As you all have been following along with my experience, you have seen most of everything I've done, all I've learned and the places I've visited. This internship went beyond any expectations I could have had and this incredible summer will not be forgotten.<br /><br />Even though majority of the summer has been internship-oriented, there was still time for a little fun! In this last blog I'll give you guys a brief overview of my last week's activities and then share with you all the exciting places I was able to visit throughout my three months here in South Carolina!<br /><br /><u>DATABASE</u></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I mentioned earlier in my previous blog, the first half of my week was dedicated to database work. All the daylily research and pictures I collected throughout the summer was input into the database. I was happy to learn how to use their filemaker system and share the work I had completed in the past three months. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To finalize my daylily work here at the garden, I spent a day with the GIS intern GPS-mapping the daylily collection. What that means is, we recorded the GPS coordinates of each individual daylily. Those coordinates can then be entered into the garden's database per each daylily to create maps and accurate location for plant records. To better explain the process, in the picture to the right you can see a tall yellow GPS Unit on the right and a red Rangefinder on the left. The GPS Unit is connected to a satellite, which records the coordinates of the location of the unit. The Rangerfinder is an easier way of collecting multiple coordinate points without having to move the larger GPS unit each time. The Rangefinder syncs to the GPS unit and uses it as a reference point, determining it's GPS coordinates from the relative distance to the unit. So the Rangefinder is able to move from plant to plant recording each plant's individual coordinates. It wasn't a short process but it was interesting to be involved in and fun to complete as a finishing touch on my daylilies. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDc7F0AwwuE7WQlRsaAqA8P4I8rRRsql_pVfNbKoC2KNhqPrrFjCWliFN9r3gVueqkzl9ulNNNJ8XvQh0XiscfesXLsmPAsVArayKbH5_yyWyHdtImlMMn0KR-hzcjZF1MSWhp1EdsR4/s1600/photo+(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDc7F0AwwuE7WQlRsaAqA8P4I8rRRsql_pVfNbKoC2KNhqPrrFjCWliFN9r3gVueqkzl9ulNNNJ8XvQh0XiscfesXLsmPAsVArayKbH5_yyWyHdtImlMMn0KR-hzcjZF1MSWhp1EdsR4/s1600/photo+(4).jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another feature to the farm I don't think I've mentioned is, bees! One of the horticulturists is the bee keeper to a hand full of hives she started at the garden. Starting about a month ago, she was able to harvest honey and in doing so she also obtained a lot of bees wax. We took this molded wax and melted it down to liquid form to then poured it into mason jars with wicks to create our candles. The process was way easier than I expected. However knowing I made it and that it came from a true bee hive was really cool!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Moore Farms has a signature fire tower on the garden property which serves as the official entrance into the garden, as everyone must pass through/under at the beginning of their tour. A weeping form of a Bald Cypress tree, Taxodium 'Cascade Falls', was planted at each of the four metal base posts. Over the past year they have been training it to grow up the fire tower and subtly drape down and across the harsh metal beams to create a softer more feathery texture better fitting to the garden. I spent a while cleaning up and training some of the wild new growth, tying and pruning the branches into their desired locations. It was a very fun job and one I took pride in as it was something everyone would see upon entering the garden. The picture here is a small portion of the tower and where I began my work on it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">--> Myrtle Beach, South Carolina<br />I went to the beach a few times over the summer, once with the other interns, once with my family, when they came to visit, and another time with a friend of mine who also came to visit. Each time was a lot of fun in the sun!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">--> Charleston, South Carolina<br />I visited Charleston twice, once on a work trip and the second time on a day trip with one of the other interns and my friend who came to visit. With each trip I saw a different side of the city. During our work trip I saw some of downtown but mainly the beautiful small home gardens all throughout the city, with their formal unique style. On our day trip one weekend, we saw more of the touristy side of Charleston. We took a boat tour and walked along the main streets. It is such a beautiful city.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The week my parents came to visit I spent the weekend with them in Savannah. Two days was definitely not enough to capture all the city has to offer, but we tried to experience as much as we could! We walked down the main streets, took a fun ghost tour, saw Forest Gump's bench and even made our way out to Tybee Island.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This trip was a little bit of a stretch but totally worth it! I had never been to Virginia and when one of the interns (who attends Virginia Tech University) heard that, she made me go visit with her. It was a blast! We toured around the beautiful campus of VT, hiked Cascade Falls, and swam at a river within the mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you guys for following along with me on this wonderful adventure. I hope you've enjoyed hearing about my experiences just as much as I enjoyed doing them. The learning was abundant and the joy overflowing! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The week started out very exciting with a trip to upstate South Carolina to visit a few gardens there. We left early Monday morning and returned on Tuesday, late afternoon.</span></div>
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<li> <span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hatcher Garden, Spartanburg, South Carolina: This was our first stop and we received a tour by one of their Horticulturists. The garden is a public botanical garden and woodland preserve tucked away in a little neighborhood right off the highway. It began as just the yard of the retired Harold and Josephine Hatcher. Over the span of thirty years they acquired ten acres of property and it eventually became what it is today; a nonprofit organization, free to the public and open all daylight hours everyday. It survives today by donors and volunteers determined to preserve this beautiful garden and the joy it brings to the community through programs and events. Below are some of the pictures I took while we were there. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Spartanburg Community College Arboretum, Spartanburg, South Carolina: Our next stop was visiting SCCA where a professor Jay Moore toured us around the campus gardens and Kevin Parris showed us around their production area and Magnolia trial gardens. SCC is a small, two year college yet very based in horticulture. Seeing their campus gardens and how interactive their students were able to be there was wonderful. <br />Here are a few pictures of their campus gardens below.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I mentioned Kevin Parris briefly above, but more thoroughly, he is a major Magnolia expert and researcher. He works a lot with the hybridization of particular genuses and works to preserve almost extinct magnolia types in order keep their genes present in the future of Magnolias. This picture (below)</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> is a rare Magnolia he is trailing at SCCA. </span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Figlar's, Pickens, South Carolina: Our third and final stop of the day was Dick and Anita Figlar's residence. Dick Figlar is one of the world's greatest plantsmen in regards to Magnolia and is probably the most renown Magnolia expert of North America. After spending the evening and morning touring his private study arboretum and talking with him, we knew those to be true. He has a decent area of land surrounding his house in the mountains of upstate South Carolina. There he created an arboretum/grove of Magnolias amidst the native South Carolina terrain. Also, closer around his house he has numerous cultivars and genuses from all over the world to observe, preserve and showcase. He allows researchers and guests to tour each upon request. Showing us these rare specimens and sharing his knowledge of Magnolias with us was simply unbelievable. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfWddToqmgchRG7wxCcK_EiLhoxwpsCwBidw8MYS1UlOdv069SKm8c76iev2__9AUp9zJXjfPSi5NdmTcxhGbZ_sF2D_YYd2wXDVWAnwjkiOI7FQv3CFGCQHm0LZ-zl_4dAmKrSOIl7s/s1600/IMG_8984.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfWddToqmgchRG7wxCcK_EiLhoxwpsCwBidw8MYS1UlOdv069SKm8c76iev2__9AUp9zJXjfPSi5NdmTcxhGbZ_sF2D_YYd2wXDVWAnwjkiOI7FQv3CFGCQHm0LZ-zl_4dAmKrSOIl7s/s1600/IMG_8984.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a> </li>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">Rachel and I did a lot of work in the vegetable garden this week. We harvested, as normal, mainly beans and a few eggplant. But mostly we pulled out spent spring and summer vegetables and planted new fall ones! We sowed numerous carrots, beets, bush beans, okra, and cucumbers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">As both horticulture internships were ending quickly, (Rachel this past Friday and mine this coming Friday) our garden director scheduled a garden walk with us. It was really just us walking through the garden with him talking and reflecting on our internship here. It was really nice though. It was a cool full circle type experience thinking back on our first weeks here to now, months later. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">As for our intern presentations this week, they all went great! We all elaborated on the topics assigned to us and were evaluated by the staff throughout the presentation. I put together a powerpoint including some data I found throughout the summer observing the trial daylily collection. Here is a link to the powerpoint:</span><br />
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The presentation experience and evaluations from the staff were very helpful. It was a lot more nerve-racking presenting in front of twenty (almost) co-workers all evaluating you than to one professor evaluating you while twenty other students are just watching. However, we all did well and will take the criticism with us to future jobs. </div>
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Majority of next week will be all database work. It will be my last week so all the information I have recorded on the daylily collection thus far (May-Aug) must be entered into the garden's database. I have been keeping my own records in an excel spreadsheet I created at the start of the project, but the information will be a lot more beneficial to the farm if it is within their own database. This task will take a long time I predict, as there are roughly three hundred and fifty cultivars of daylilies and I have information and pictures for each one. Yet, this will be a great learning process for me on how to use, enter records and navigate through the garden's online database. I am also greatly looking forward to sharing and putting to use all the information I have gathered throughout my time here. </div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the internship is nearing it's close, we have been undergoing a little less garden work and a little more professional development as well as attending meetings and such to help us see all areas of this profession. As I go through last week's agenda and talk about the plans ahead you'll see how important the garden feels this kind of experience is. I am so glad I landed an internship that included a professional development section to their program, as it's extremely important to gain the kind of knowledge that isn't always taught in the classroom. </span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Follow along to read more about the specifics of this past week!</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>FLOWER ARRANGING</u></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The week began first thing with some flower arranging. Every week the horticulturist who runs the cut flower garden goes out and harvests enough flowers to create around eight arrangements that are placed in buildings all throughout the garden for that week. Rachel and I expressed a desire to learn more about design and flower arranging so we were able to join her this past Monday morning through the whole process. It was really fun and such a learning experience! Both Rachel and I have taken a floral design class and created all sorts of designs for that class but these arrangements and this kind of arranging was a bit different. For one we had never picked our own flowers for a design. This seems small but there is a lot more to it than you think. When harvesting your own flowers you have to come up with a unifying theme, colors and how many blooms per arrangement etc, from what you have available. Also, we were using different shaped and sized vases to hold the free arrangements, versus an oasis type design. All in all they turned out great! They allowed us to learn flexibility in design and how to design as we went while using what we had. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Throughout the week the other interns and I have attended a few meetings to see more of the business side of the garden. One pertained to an event the garden is hosting at the end of August, MFBG Beer Fest. A committee containing a small number of selected staff members, plus us interns, met to discuss preparations such as food, music, and marketing techniques. This event has been undergoing planning for a while now and had a previous meeting at the beginning of summer. Seeing the amount of time and decisions dedicated to one event was great to see, as I wouldn't believe the abundance of planning necessary right off the bat.<br /> Another meeting we were able to attend was the senior staff meeting. This meeting was a collection of the garden supervisors. The main topic discussed was a new Leave Policy for the garden's staff. Voting and opinions were voiced on this as well as other topics, and updates from the supervisors were given to their fellow supervisors. Attending this meeting was very neat, as we saw how decisions were made and how the garden is able to stay fully in tune with all it's areas. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One afternoon was spent retrieving Magnolia leaf samples from seventeen Magnolia trees located throughout the garden. We took them later that afternoon to the Clemson Extension where they would be tested for particular pests and diseases. Once the results are given the garden can better determine how to treat their Magnolia trees for infestations. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The garden had been awaiting a new large load of mulch for almost a month now and it finally came in last week. So we spent a good bit of time re-mulching a number of the beds in the garden, mainly the cut flower garden. I had never mulched in large quantities or areas before so doing so was interesting and seeing the aesthetic difference after was very impressive. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> To incorporate professional development into our experience, the garden is doing a number of things. One major part was evaluating our resume, cover letter, and interviews completed and turned in for this position. They created a panel of three, the Garden Director, Operations Manager and Education and Events Coordinator, who each critiqued our items. We individually sat with the panel and discussed their changes and alterations. It was wonderful to hear their professional opinions and the do's and don't's of the application process. </span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Another major part of our professional development experience here is a staff presentation. This past week we were each assigned a topic that we were fairly familiar with this summer to present at the next all staff meeting, which is next week. They expressed that giving a business presentation to fellow employees, and employers was much different than giving a presentation in a classroom setting to fellow students. They are giving us a way to learn and grow as a professional versus a student and I know myself and the other interns are grateful for this opportunity. My topic is over the daylily collection since that has been a project I've been observing from start of my internship. Basically I will be updating the staff on what I have been doing and my findings throughout this summer. I am excited to share my work with the rest of the staff and gain experience presenting professionally to others. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are numerous Crape Myrtles within the garden, but a few lining a particular pathway were becoming a little unruly. Because of their dense outer canopy, a lot of the time the inner portion of the tree dies. To avoid having such a twiggy messy look on the inside and within the branching of the Crape Myrtle, a lot of dead wooding should be done. Another habit common to Crape Myrtles is drooping branches during bloom. Their blooms are typically pretty heavy and can weigh the branch down lower than the desired or aesthetic height so pruning a bit off the ends can relieve the weight and raise them back to an appropriate height. Rachel and I spent awhile cleaning up a handful of Crape Myrtles this way one afternoon. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWcZ37emorZoHRmdj5eMh5m_xyZhHWribUYBtJ-ZUXblM273hf3dShuoAPGPseipLYokuLJhjbBqJtt1gwD7rku6EI4OiJRwGfcuMKqepYTA25-SWa9f2Cf6ELHzHKNp6_RL3S9-NyE4/s1600/IMG_8889.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWcZ37emorZoHRmdj5eMh5m_xyZhHWribUYBtJ-ZUXblM273hf3dShuoAPGPseipLYokuLJhjbBqJtt1gwD7rku6EI4OiJRwGfcuMKqepYTA25-SWa9f2Cf6ELHzHKNp6_RL3S9-NyE4/s1600/IMG_8889.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> One day was spent entirely at Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden, quickly after arriving I knew it was going to be one of my favorite experiences of this internship. Pearl Fryar is a self-taught topiary master. He began creating topiaries in the garden at his house with the small goal of winning garden of the month in his neighborhood. His unique talent didn't go un-noticed for long. After five years, he gained national recognition through numerous garden clubs, articles, television shows and even released a documentary in later years (2006). While we were there for our visit, he was telling us about preparing his garden for a feature in National Geographic!<br /> He showcases his garden to visitors of all kinds almost everyday and loves sharing his work with the public. When we came to visit his garden we met a family from Turkey that had also stopped by to look around! </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was the neatest thing.</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> The picture above and to the right has Pearl in the dark blue shirt in the middle, the Turkish family on the left and myself and the other interns on the right.</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Pearl was truly inspiring repeating valuable words of wisdom to us many times throughout our tour, "It is not just education. Education is the foundation; it's what you do with your education that makes you successful. Take your education and combine it with something you do well and that's when you become a master at what you do." These are mottos Pearl lived it and are evident in his garden. He took his education and a talent of his and became one of the only people in the world able to create topiaries the way he does. Meeting Pearl and seeing his work up close was phenomenal! Below are some of the many pictures I took.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now you're probably wondering what I've done for the past couple weeks and I'll share with you below.<br /><br /><u>PRODUCTION CENTER</u></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The week started with working a lot in the production center, dividing, cutting, and propagating with our grower. For example there were a few clumps of Aspidistra elatior </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'Starry Night'</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> out in the garden in an area that used to be shaded. A couple trees in that same area were removed allowing a lot more sun in that once shady spot. The Aspidistra was becoming bleached from the high amount of sun so Rachel and I went out and dug them up to take divisions and propagate them. Another couple tasks were taking Coleus and Sweet Potato Vine cuttings for propagation, and potting around one hundred and fifty pine saplings. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A small task was helping our greenwall and greenroof research assistant clean up the greenwall. It had become a little wild with a lot of growth through spring and summer so cleaning up and determining what all was present in the wall was needed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Something I was itching to do all summer was work with our plant recorder, who does all the GPS mapping and such, and the GIS intern. This was something completely foreign to me until the afternoon Rachel and I got to work with them. We were given the run down on the importance of mapping and plant location records in a botanical garden. It was super interesting to see a whole different aspect of the garden and we were even able to go into the garden and map a couple beds! Below is a picture of our plant recorder and GIS intern mapping the green roof. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know I talked a lot about bamboo last blog, as we worked a lot with it. We also did a bit more work with limbing some up these past two weeks and I took a picture this time so you all can have a better idea of what limbing bamboo up means and looks like.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of my favorite times in the past couple weeks was attending the flower pressing class. It was a class offered to the public by the garden, taught by the education intern. My sister was in town visiting so she was able to come too. We went out into the cut flower garden to harvest the flowers and learned how to quickly press them via microwave versus the month long pressing in books and such. After the quick pressing we were all able to design them on a canvas and seal them there by a clear drying glue. Below is a picture of the one I helped my sister create. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The main entrance of the garden follows a pretty lengthy road that winds around the garden before taking you to the Visitors Center. Near the front of that road was a slightly boring area so over a hundred small needle palms were planted. Rachel and I went out a couple days after they were planted and fertilized them all. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is an area of the garden that starts near the Visitors Center and takes you along to the Native garden area. That stretch is called Fire Tower Lane. There are quite a few young willow trees in that area that are not yet mature enough to stand upright alone, so we did some staking and re-staking of those. Also there were a couple Sycamore trees and a Pine we pruned a few bad limbs and low laying limbs off before they started damaging the tree or surrounding trees. Rachel and I also weeded in the area and pruned and dead-wooded the small shrubs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Within the first couple weeks of my internship, and the first day of Rachel's, one of our biggest tasks was cleaning up and designing/planting at the entrance house. The entrance house is at one of the entrances of the garden and is primarily the first thing people see when entering the garden so cleaning up those beds was a necessary priority since not too much had been done there in the past month or so. However, because Rachel and I had worked in that area before and knew what we had planted, the job was done more confidently. For example we pruned and trained rose bushes, weeded all the beds, sheared hedges, pruned trees and shrubs, cut back mums and other overgrown areas, and cleared out dead or dying plant material. It was definitely a full day of hard work but it was fun to see our previous work a month and half later; seeing how some things grew very well and filled in, how some didn't survive, or how the same plant on each side of the house grew different because of its location or sun/shade etc. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg333lvRkP6uzCknX-K4YcDVxW-h-MN4iLQRwK5x0zaVjob_-dLHijB9o6301FOQ2zt4zQiI3Ea-8yKIE5c3l7xCiDcUjRKA8znA97q7mA2ZIEorFl8y3WVN9xgyPrVlMtqY_aWqT3t8l4/s1600/10502242_10152576249811153_8940283183259734607_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg333lvRkP6uzCknX-K4YcDVxW-h-MN4iLQRwK5x0zaVjob_-dLHijB9o6301FOQ2zt4zQiI3Ea-8yKIE5c3l7xCiDcUjRKA8znA97q7mA2ZIEorFl8y3WVN9xgyPrVlMtqY_aWqT3t8l4/s1600/10502242_10152576249811153_8940283183259734607_n.jpg" height="213" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like I mentioned in the last blog, through Moore Farms and the JC Raulston Arboretum we had a great opportunity of doing an intern experience there at the Arboretum with their interns and horticulturists like they had here at Moore Farms a couple weeks ago. The Arboretum is located in Raleigh, North Carolina so we left early one morning and traveled the pretty three hour drive there. Upon arrival we jumped right in with what one of their horticulturists and interns were working on. They were creating pathways in their Eucalyptus bed. So we got to work digging a shallow section throughout the bed and then filled it with mulch to serve as the walkway. Once we finished we were taken on a tour by the other horticulturist throughout the beautiful arboretum! </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDSji43fAR4FROrJTw4x-aBQHN37h-DGJqS6XiWOcjQ3Zuj02XjxKgoxV6BmFlmCBteAO4TuoGfHjxo_HX7wM19MfqFOD0CAbjl5uUABHUmp7_y3Rb5RAZoLdUbBIvtiUmMPR9_e_LfQ/s1600/10559675_10152576130346153_2946284256253960479_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDSji43fAR4FROrJTw4x-aBQHN37h-DGJqS6XiWOcjQ3Zuj02XjxKgoxV6BmFlmCBteAO4TuoGfHjxo_HX7wM19MfqFOD0CAbjl5uUABHUmp7_y3Rb5RAZoLdUbBIvtiUmMPR9_e_LfQ/s1600/10559675_10152576130346153_2946284256253960479_n.jpg" height="213" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next day we helped clean out an area of the arboretum called the Asian Valley, pulling weeds and cutting back dead bamboo stalks. As the day progressed we took numerous cuttings of Lantana, Desert Willow, Phlox, and many many more. We had a full heavy cooler at the end of two hours and spent the rest of the day propagating the cuttings in the greenhouse. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The morning of our third day was spent at Plant Delights Nursery and oh my goodness, that place is amazing! It is one of the largest mail order companies in the country. It also has a botanical garden where they trial all of their plants and species they collect over seas before propagating and putting on the market for costumers. It was so beautiful and incredibly impressive. I could have spent weeks there exploring, learning and marveling at the species they have growing wonderfully in the North Carolina climate. The owner toured us around a bit and his passion was as incredible as the plants he showcases. Below are some of the many pictures I took while walking around! Enjoy :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>BAMBOO</u><br />I love love love bamboo. So when Rachel and I were assigned to travel to Chapel Hill, NC to pick up some mature bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides) for the garden, I was pretty excited. We had to be careful driving with 20ft bamboo in the truck bed, but we made it successfully back to the farm and placed it in our nursery!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A few days later we assisted with it's placement in the garden. Our project was able to make full circle, from delivering the bamboo to planting it. Neither of us had ever experienced planting bamboo before so it was a fun task to be involved in. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Later on in the week we did a lot of pruning on an already established section of bamboo in the garden. It had become a little wild and over grown so we up-pruned it (meaning we chose a height at which we pruned off all the branches coming off the stalk up to that height, leaving just the bare stalk until that height line). It created more of a clean, formal look for the bamboo and also allowed viewing through the bamboo.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know I've told y'all about the day lily collection I look after. Well within a few short weeks the weeds we had previously removed were back and beginning to take over, so Rachel and I spent an entire day weeding the collection. As much as weeding is a dull and torturous task, it felt great to fully clear the area I work in. Below is a picture of just one of the many loads of weeds we removed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A neat part of our internship experience here is an intern exchange with the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC. This past week the four interns serving at their arboretum this summer came to experience our garden for a couple days. Next week we will be going there for the same amount of time. I love the opportunity it allows us, not only to meet other aspiring professionals in our field but also the exposure to other types of gardens in different areas. I'm excited to see where they work soon! While they were here we worked on many fun things such as planting Magnolias, planting on our green roof, and participating in a grafting lesson. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Its been a couple weeks since my last blog and the New York City Trip, but I have one last thing to share with y'all about the trip! The three other interns and I were asked to give a presentation to all the staff once we returned to show them our experience. Here is a link to the powerpoint presentation we came up with!<br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwfweOMdeTRveFcyZkZEalEweVE/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">NYC Presentation</a><br /><br />In these couple weeks following our trip we've done many jobs and a lot of work, at the garden and elsewhere. Here is a brief description of some of them.<br /><br /><u>PRODUCTION CENTER</u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Another intern and I represented Moore Farms at the local, Lake City Farmers Market selling day lilies and tomato plants!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This past week marked the half-way point of my time here and as crazy as that sounds, it has been seven weeks. The time has flown by and unfortunately I don't see it slowing down anytime soon. Luckily, i'm optimistic and am choosing to see this situation as the cup being half-full. I still have seven more wonderful weeks here so stay tuned for all that's to come!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17624786022994561898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043648448922204809.post-27050332801640067912014-06-15T18:00:00.002-07:002014-06-15T18:00:28.502-07:00NYC Intern Trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">HOWDY FRIENDS,<br />Today marks a whole month I've been here at Moore Farms and that seems unbelievable to me. It has been such a wonderful time of learning experiences, hard work, and friendships. I only hope the next two months don't fly by like this one has, but either way I will make the most of everyday be it fast or slow!</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Each summer Moore Farms Botanical Garden take their interns and a few staff on a trip. For the interns, it is a way to see and explore gardens in other areas of the United States as well as make connections with professionals in our field for future opportunities. For their staff members, attending the trip serves as staff development and way for them to also see and experience varies gardens of different areas.<br />This summer the intern trip was to New York City, New York! We left early Wednesday, June 10th and came back late Saturday, June 14th. However before I get more into the exciting details of our trip I want to share what Rachel, the other horticulture intern, and I did in the garden before we left Wednesday.<br /><br />Early this past spring, there was a pretty large ice storm that passed through South Carolina, damaging the garden a great deal. Over a hundred trees were lost. The rest of spring was spent recovering and removing all the fallen and damaged trees from the garden. Replacing these trees has been the horticulturists main task for the past month. The very last trees of the large tree order they brought in were left for Rachel and I to put in. Let me tell you, they weren't little baby saplings. These were mature trees, Hollies to be specific. The Hollies came in what they refer to as B&B's, bald and burlapped. It is way of transplanting large trees where the rootball is wrapped in burlap, which holds in moisture and keeps the rootball from oxygen exposure during transplant. Once an appropriate sized hole is dug, it can be placed right in. With the removal of a small amount of burlap around the crown of the tree and one third of the way down the root ball and filling in the hole of fresh soil, you should be all set.<br />That was exactly what Rachel and I did. It took a whole day plus the help of a couple crew workers and a tractor, but we did it. We created a nice large screen of eight Holly trees at the back of the garden's nursery area. It was a task neither of us had ever seen or done before but a great one to experience! Below is a picture.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another project we took on this past week, before leaving for our trip, was part of a long term project I shared before, the Bay Laurel hedges. I mentioned the scale problem and the gardens experimental route in finding the best insecticide to use in solving that problem. So Tuesday, Rachel and I set about in the first steps of it. We were given seven different insecticides and one horticulture oil to spray individually on the eight sections of the hedge. This was another all day task as we wanted to do a very thorough job in spraying and cleaning the water tank in between each type in order to obtain more accurate results. In two weeks the process will be repeated and a few weeks following the second treatment new samples will be taken from each hedge section to determine which insecticide worked best in comparison to the first samples taken before the insecticide application.<br /><br />Now to NYC!<br /><u>WEDNESDAY</u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The High Line was wonderful! It is a 1.45 miles stretch of public park located in Manhattan on an old rail line that is elevated above street level, admits the buildings. It is the perfect urban style garden for New York City, as everyone is constantly walking from one place to another surrounded by nothing but building after building. This creates a strip of garden to enjoy while going about your business. I absolutely loved it! I am very passionate about the importance of nature in people's lives and seeing this functional green space in such a condensed city brought me much joy.<br /><br /><u>THURSDAY</u></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Queens Botanical Garden was great, I valued its passion and sustainability most. It was one of the smaller, less funded and profitable gardens we visited. However it was enormously geared towards public involvement, learning, community. With incomparable environmental practices, children's programs, and community services, this garden can not be overlooked. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wave hill was BEAUTIFUL! It was probably my favorite of the gardens because of it's romantic and intimate feel. It is a smaller public garden located in the Bronx right on the Hudson River with a view of the Palisades beyond the river. It is definitely in the top five most beautiful places I have ever seen. The garden has many different areas but they all flow together nicely, rich in design. Art also plays a major role in this garden, as Wave Hill is also referred to as a culture center. They have an art gallery and host a multitude of fine art events throughout the year. I love this garden's connection of nature and the arts. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The New York Botanical Garden, also located in the Bronx, is by far the largest and most impressive of the New York City gardens. It is the most well known and about two hundred and fifty acres in size, making it the largest. We spent four hours there and probably only saw half of the garden. It contains historic buildings, huge production centers, a conservatory, forests, and even offers a continuing education and graduate studies program. Yet that is only a handful of what the garden possesses. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So that was our trip, super exciting and busy! We also checked out a lot of the fun touristy things in the evenings. I hope you liked the photos and I hope one day you all can make it out to the wonderful gardens of New York City! You won't regret it!<br /><br /><u>STAY TUNED</u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is always a mystery what we will be doing in the garden every week but one exciting thing I can give y'all a sneak peak on is the Savannah River Site! Rachel and I will be going to the Savannah River Site with our Garden Director, Ethan to collect plants and explore the historic site. It is a very unique opportunity and we are thrilled to partake, stay tuned to hear all about it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At the beginning of my third week I was assigned an important task. I was to drive a company vehicle (a large diesel truck) to a nursery in North Carolina (about four hours away) to pick up and fit 67 <u>Hydrangea quercifolia</u> 'Munchkin' plants in the truck for transport back to the garden. Needless to say it was a bit stressful but in all, a very successful trip. The next day I was able to plant them in a great spot in the garden that I hope to see one day in the future, when their full growth and beauty within the design will be displayed. The rest of my week was spent clearing out old plant material and weeds from the formal garden, as the end of May is the transition time from cool season/spring annuals to summer annuals.<br /><br /> Ashley (Education intern) and I were the only interns here for the past few weeks but the weekend after my third week the remaining two showed up: Rachel (the other Horticulture Intern) and Eva (GIS Intern). It was an exciting, busy time as we were helping them move in and all getting to know each other. We definitely have a full house now with all four of us here but there's never a dull moment! We are all from different areas of the United States and studying/studied different things so sharing experiences and knowledge is really fun. I was also very excited to have another horticulture intern to work with throughout the summer.<br /><br /><u>WEEK 4</u> <br />Beginning week four, business-wise, we had a couple meetings pertaining to the intern trips we will take throughout the summer and one on how to use the Garden's database for plant recording and observations etc. Work-wise, for Rachel and I, the week was spent continuing the clearing out of old plant material and weeding throughout the garden in this almost ending transition season. But a few larger and more fun projects we started this past week was redesigning and planting around the security house and collecting allium seeds.<br /> Projects:<br />The security house is located at the front of the gardens, where a lot of traffic entering the garden passes through. Rachel and I were assigned to clear out all the beds surrounding the house of weeds and over grown or dying plant material and to find replacement plant material that would endure the summer conditions. The first step, clearing out the beds, took a very full long long day. However the next day made up for the previous day's hard work, as we were allowed to choose and plant appropriate plants and design the look of the beds. Here are few pictures of this project in motion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another small project we began at the end of the week was collecting <u>Allium</u> 'Red Beard' flower spikelets. The picture below is what they look like. Usually they are a cool fun color but as they begin to die they turn this tan brown color and eventually dehisce and little black seeds fall out. Rachel and I collected six small brown bags full of these spikelets and left them to dry and dehisce over the weekend so next week we can more easily separate the seed and plant them some time in the future. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>DAYLILIES</u><br />As for my summer long daylily project, they've been blooming like crazy! Atleast ten a day have been popping open into a vibrant bloom. So far, I've recorded over a hundred and twenty. A few of my favorite blooms over these past weeks are below. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week is our big intern trip to New York City! We have a bunch of really cool things planned that I can't wait to share them with you next weekend once we're back! :) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been here at Moore Farms Botanical Garden for almost two weeks now, but it has felt like so much longer, (in a good way of course)! To be completely honest I came into this internship a little nervous, not knowing what to expect or how things were going to go, but it has been great! I have experienced so much already and have met so many wonderful people in a little less than two short weeks. If this is any indication of how the rest of the summer will go, I am not sure if I will want to leave!</span><br />
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<u style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">History & Description of the Gardens</u><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u>Moore Farms Botanical Garden was founded in 2002 by Darla Moore, a South Carolina Native, who desired to turn her ancestral farm lands into a beautiful and educational garden. Over the past 12 years it has grown enormously into a place of enjoyment, research, and pride for the community.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Garden encompasses numerous areas of attraction that I'll describe briefly below.</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>Fire Tower Gardens</u>: includes the visitor center, a bog garden, a turf event area, and the signature fire tower that serves at the official entrance to the Gardens</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>Pine Bay</u>: includes four hundred species of plants native to the coastal plain of South Carolina in the midst of tall pineland</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>Production Center</u>: includes three greenhouses, an outside nursery, and a storage cooler to produce and hold material for the Garden</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I arrived just in time for the Gardens May Days event. This event opens the Garden to the public, hosts tours, and holds a plant sale. The first day of the event I acted as a floater to get myself more familiar with the Garden and the staff as well as helping run the plant sale. The second day of the event I aided a staff member in guiding the Green Roof, Living Wall, and Production Center tours. This task made me get familiar with the Garden's history and garden area descriptions real quick as I was giving the tours by the end of the day.</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This past week was more of a cleaning out and replacing week for most of the Garden, as it is right around transition time from spring to summer here in South Carolina. So I spent most of my time in various parts of the garden (Main House Beds, Formal Garden,and Green Roof) cleaning out beds and replacing new fresh plant material ready for the summer season.<br /><br /><br /><br /><u>Long Term Projects</u></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I live on-site in what is called the Intern House on the grounds of the Garden. Right outside the house is an area with a little more than three hundred different cultivars of Daylilies. Their purpose is for observation of bloom time per specific cultivar. This is one of my small tasks over the summer, to record this information so the Garden can be more familiar with these specific cultivars. So far thirteen have come into bloom and I'm excited to further their documentation for the duration of summer. Below are a few of my favorites.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another project the Garden is undergoing that I'm aiding in this summer has to do with their Bay Laurel hedges. They have developed an insect scale problem. To handle the situation best, they're doing somewhat of an experiment with it first. Earlier this week, I took several samples from different sections of the hedges and drove them to the Clemson Extension Service to be tested for the types of scale present. The plan from there is to spray different types of insecticides on the different hedge sections and then take another set of samples to compare what insecticide worked on what scale and so on. From there the Garden can determine the best way to solve their problem. I'm also excited to be involved in seeing this project pan out. It is not the most glamorous project but it is part of the job and needed to gain a well-rounded understanding of the workings of a botanical garden. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>STAY TUNED</u><br />A couple more interns will arrive later this week, the other horticulture intern and the GIS intern so many more experiences and learning are to come. Quickly following their arrival, that next week we will take our intern trip to NYC and explore a few of the botanical gardens there. Continue following as I can't wait to continue sharing my experiences with you all!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17624786022994561898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043648448922204809.post-69549701981575239872014-05-13T20:48:00.000-07:002014-05-13T20:48:11.962-07:00The Bud Begins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nature is my passion and my desire to learn never ceases. </span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My name is Ashley Brinegar. I am a senior Horticulture major at Texas A&M University. This summer I have the wonderful opportunity of serving as a Horticulture Intern at Moore Farms Botanical Garden in Lake City, South Carolina. I will be sharing everything I learn and the adventures I have here in this blog! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How Did I Get Here?</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I found Moore Farms Botanical Garden's internship opportunity on the Aggies for Hire website. I went through their application and interview process over the span of a couple months and was offered the intern spot in mid-March. I begin in a couple short days, May 15th, and continue interning for the duration of the summer, finishing on August 15th. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My Hopes</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am beyond thrilled for this summer. I could not dream of better location or a more perfect internship for me. Coming from Texas, I am grateful for any type of green vegetation in the summers, and a botanical garden is where I would choose to be at any given time. Like I said, perfect and especially so here lately as I have become more and more interested in public horticulture and am very excited to experience it first hand. Also, through this internship, I will finally get to put the knowledge I've gained over my years at A&M into practice, something I have been looking forward to since my freshman year. I am even more so anticipating the knowledge I will gain in these next few months, as it will probably exceed any expectation I could imagine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">I drove from Waco, Texas to Birmingham, Alabama today and will finish the journey, arriving in at the Gardens in Lake City, South Carolina early tomorrow evening. I cannot wait to see what this summer has in store and to share that growth with you along the way! </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17624786022994561898noreply@blogger.com0