FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – The Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department officially reopened the Desert House at the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory on Thursday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Fort Wayne Mayor Sharon Tucker, Parks and Recreation Director Steve McDaniel, Supervisor of Horticulture Gilbert Young, supporters, and public officials celebrated the transformation that provides for a rich and rare Midwest display of specimens of the four major deserts of North America: Great Basin, Mojave, Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts plus some arid-loving species from Africa, South America, Australia and Mexico.
Parks and Recreation released the following:…