If you are an urban gardener, consider signing up for the City Gardens Contest, an opportunity for PHS to shine the spotlight on all the amazing green spaces cultivated and cared for by Philadelphians! Each summer the PHS City Gardens Contest sends elite judges to all corners of the city. Home gardeners may enter front-yard… [Read more…]
PHS was recently honored by The Pennsylvania–Delaware Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects with a Merit Award in the General Design Category of the Professional Awards Program for the 2011 PHS Pops Up Garden. One of the judges commented about the garden: “I love this—this type of temporary urbanism is just fantastic. What a… [Read more…]
You don’t want to miss the PHS Exhibit at the 2012 Flower Show. Although we prefer to maintain an air of mystique, we will drops some hints. At this year’s exhibit you’ll enjoy the spectacle of a futuristic garden, all the learning about City Harvest, our multifaceted initiative to make fresh produce available in underserved… [Read more…]
If you think your neighborhood would benefit from a community garden—and what community wouldn’t?—take a proactive step and join the PHS Garden Tenders. By the time you complete the six-week training session, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to get a garden off the ground. Not only that, but you’ll have laughed a lot and… [Read more…]
On Wednesday, December 7, lucky recipients of PHS’s Community Greening Award and winners of the City Gardens Contest had the opportunity to attend a reception at the Governor’s Mansion in Harrisburg hosted by Pennsylvania First Lady Susan Corbett. Several media sources have given coverage to the reception; stories about winners from Stroudsburg, Bryn Mawr, Allegheny… [Read more…]
Trees, gardens, and grass may be pretty, but did you know they might actually keep you safe, active, and happy as well? It’s true. A study conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recently found that neighborhoods in which blighted, vacant lots have been cleaned and greened report lower crime rates than neighborhoods in… [Read more…]
May 23, 2012 by Annalee
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