Informe de práctica laboral: Prácticas en viverización en el Jardín Botánico de Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

Abstract

In 2013, Marcela Ferreyra, a professor of Nursery Technician at the National University of Rio Negro (UNRN), was invited to the Denver Botanic Garden (DBG) to present her book Flowers of the Patagonian Steppe. This publication had a good impact at the American Garden, which has in its collection specimens of the steppes of the world, with numerous species belonging to Patagonia. That instance started the link between both institutions that later agreed on a framework agreement of cooperation in which they expressed the desire to establish relations of joint development, complementation and cooperation. In 2016, a proposal was drawn up between the UNRN and Colorado State University (CSU) so that, through the modality of student exchange, advanced students of the Nursery Technician (TEVI) could access to do internships at the Denver Botanic Garden. Once this modality was established, UNRN Andina called for a competition among advanced students, selecting three students with merit to participate, with the author being one of those selected. Based on the experience, the following report is developed, which is a partial version of the exchange experience. Its focus is on the actions carried out as an internal student of the Kindergarten during the more than 70 days between the end of June and the beginning of September 2017.