30th Anniversary Scavenger Hunt

Part of our 2025 Picture Perfect exhibit. Find them all!

Scattered throughout the Gardens are approximately 20 sculptural elements representing past themes and/or exhibits from 2004 -2024. Find them all (if you can!), and learn more about Reiman Gardens' history along the way!

  • a blue butterfly shaped bench in a garden setting

    Butterfly Bench(es)

    2003 - The Year of the Butterfly

  • small globe-shaped topiary with pruners in a garden setting

    Topiary Globe

    2004 - Seasons of Agriculture

    2005 - The Global Garden

  • an orange truck in a garden surrounded by flowers, planted under the hood with various plants

    Car Door(s)

    2006 - The Art of Gardening

  • a picture of the CY statue in front of Reiman Gardens, with the Butterfly Wing in the background

    CY Statue

    2007 - Excellence in Bloom & ISU's 150th Anniversary

  • a concrete statue of a cat reading a book

    Cat Reading

    2008 - The Novel Garden

  • a small concreate sculpture of a dinosaur (maybe a raptor) with its head twisted to look behind it

    Dinosaur

    2009 - Landscape Before Time

  • a small concrete unpainted gnome with a trowel and flowers

    Gnome (small)

    2010 - Celebration of Garden Ornamentation

  • sculpture of an ant in a garden

    Ant(s)

    2011 - Insects!

  • a bromeliad made from LOGO(R) bricks inside a building

    LEGO(R) Bromeliad

    2012 - Some Assembly Required (Nature Connects)

    2016 - Color (Nature Connects)

  • an abstracted rusted steel sculpture with three shapes like catalpa seed pods overlapping

    Pods

    2013 - More than Meets the Iowa (Iowa Naturally)

  • a cute green painted alien sculpture, holding a flower with a butterfly on its leg

    Alien (unpainted)

    2014 - A Garden Odyssey (Alien Invasion)

  • a pagoda with a swing in a garden in winter

    Pagoda

    2015 - Celebrating the Past & the Future (InTREEguing TREEhouses)

  • a concrete sea turtle in a garden

    Sea Turtle

    2017 - Water (Washed Ashore)

  • a picture of the spinning top of a kinetic sculpture that looks like two sets of gold flower petals going in opposite directions

    Wind Spinner

    2018 - Movement (Wind, Waves, & Light)

  • a life size bead maze like you see in dentists' offices, where bee=shaped beads go through colorful flowers

    Flower

    2019 - Toys & Games (Nature of the Game)

  • a green concrete sculpture of a child frog in the lap of an adult frog with all their hands on a fishing pole

    Frogs Fishing

    2020 - Wild & Whimsical (Ribbit the Exhibit)

  • a cropped picture of a metal 3d paper crane in a parking lot

    3D Paper Crane

    2021 - Patterns Unfolding (Origami in the Garden 2)

  • a tree-shaped sculpture made with recycled steel for the trunk and bent spoons and red balls for the canopy

    Cherry Tree

    2022 - Home (Lewis & Art Exhibition)

  • a large stained glass blue butterfly atop a metal stand

    Blue Morpho

    2023 - Light & Reflection (Glass in Flight)

  • a triangle-shaped wooden playhouse in the woods with blue pillows on the inside and steps leading up to it

    Woodland Tent

    2024 - The Living Landscape (Garden Playhouses)