Wednesday, May 18, 2011

A Butterfly Garden with Yoga Space


The Long Island Exhibition Center’s first exhibit – Butterflies! – will showcase thousands of butterflies and birds set in an enchanted garden – a beautiful and colorful display of blooming flowers and trees throughout the year. The exhibit will feature more than 30 species of North American and exotic, tropical free-flying butterflies, 20 different types of birds, and archerfish.

Prison or pampering? Plans for an expanded Mitchellville Prison could include a softball field; a butterfly garden; yoga space; trails for quiet reflection and maybe even an amphitheater. Iowa State University Landscape Architecture students worked with Mitchellville Women's Prison to produce plans for landscaping the new 68-million dollar prison expansion.

"We told them what we wanted. What we did not want," Warden Patti Wachtendorf says, "They came here and viewed the prison, talked to some offenders and they talked to some staff about what would you like the land scape to look like"

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