How was your work significant or meaningful to the world beyond school and your specific internship site? Almost everything that I did at the Botanical gardens has been designed to help them and the larger Southern California community. With propagation, I have helped them to start their collection of plant material to populate the sites of their restoration projects. While it is only a small drop in the ocean that is the amount of necessary plants, I have hopefully helped them to get the ball rolling. With the herbarium pressings, I have also contributed to their library of vouchers in hopes of documenting important native species. In addition to all of this, I have helped around the garden by planting new plants and sowing wildflower seeds in the California Gardenscapes garden. How did you measure the success of the work you did while you were an intern? What did you learn from this?
I tried my best to go above and beyond what I was asked to do. I measured my success by the attention to detail or effort that I gave to each task that I did. At first, with many of the tasks that I was assigned to, I had very little idea how to do it. I tried to hyper-focus on what I was doing so that I could ensure that I was doing the best possible job that I could. This helped me to learn more about the tasks that I was doing, and once I felt comfortable with them, I felt that I had a good control over each task. What new appreciations did you develop while working as an intern? Why? I really developed a passion for the art of caring for plants. I know that it isn't always easy to care for plants but it can be done and there is a lot of freedom and creativity in it. Nothing is 100% cut and dry with horticulture and there is always room for experimentation with plants. There is so much that goes into growing something but exploring what works and what doesn't is all part of the fun. What new questions has your internship inspired you to ask about our world? What has it made you wonder about? What are you moved to go out and do or learn about on your own time? This internship has made me even more aware of the need to preserve the native environment in any way possible. I will really try to grow native plants that are suitable for the environment of my backyard in an effort to bring back native plants and cut out the invasive plants that have taken over the landscape. I will really encourage everyone to have a few native plants in their homes or at school because it is really important that they have a place to flourish.
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