Love on a Mother this Mother’s Day weekend by filling her their days with fun for to show thanks for their care and nurturing. It’s time to give some of that back. Take her to the Botanical Garden to add unique plants to their at home garden, try the Gardens’ delicious brunch at their Trellis Cafe, Confluence Brewing for new art pieces, and more. Once the weekend ends, start the next week with Conflunce’s AMerican Craft Beer Week Beer Tour to win some cool prizes!
Des Moines Botanical Garden
Spring Garden Festival Preview Night
May 11 – 5:30pm
Shop the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden’s annual Spring Garden Festival May 11 through 13.
Shop more than 350 plant varieties hand selected by Botanical Garden horticulturists including unique and tried-and-true varieties grown at the Botanical Garden!
“A ‘yoke’ is something that holds things together. ‘Lore’ means a set of stories or a collection of ideas about an event, time, or culture,” explains Adrian Galvin, when asked about the meaning.
Book Review: ‘Where Rivers Go to Die’ by Dilman Dila
by Isaac Hamlet, May 11
Whatever else you take away from this review, it should be noted that Where Rivers Go to Die is primarily a collection of horror stories. Deftly created horror, sure, but unsettling — along the lines of the more mild episodes of The Twilight Zone, at its lightest. At its most frightful, expect tales akin to The Ring or Alien.
