Choose from six areas of various specialties and lengths. Receive hands-on experience in landscape maintenance,tree care, plant records, estate gardens management, and nursery production. Additional training provided by assisting plant recorder with locating, inventory, evaluating collections, and data management on BG-Base. Obtain hands-on horticultural training in landscape maintenance tree care and nursery production through rotating weekly assignments in Holden's Display Garden, Rhododendron Garden, outlying plant collections, Lantern Court estate, trails and nursery. In addition, work is done within the cooperative program between Holden and the Center for Plant Conservation.
Emphasis is on hand work rather than mechanical equipment.
Opportunities exist to gain experience with exhibit development, school programming, teaching, writing, and developing educational materials based on intern's interest and Arboretum's annual needs. All rights reserved.