As part of the recent City in Bloom event, PHS oversaw the installation of giant “lollipop” plantings in Logan Square! Taking a nod from traditional British topiary, these orb-like elevated plantings consist of Coleus ‘Sedona’ and orange lantanas. The PHS Public Landscape Design and Management team had the idea, and Tom Reber and Bernie Pettit… [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…]
In December 2008, PECO teamed up with PHS to install a green roof at its headquarters building in Philadelphia. The rooftop garden, on the top of an eight-story section of the building at 2013 Market Street, holds growing media of up to eight inches thick, and the vegetative covering reduces rainwater runoff by up to… [Read more…]
CitiesAlive 2011, the international green roof conference we’ve been blogging so much about, came and went this past week, and it turned out to be an awesome learning experience for everyone involved. From professional classes that taught conference-goers advanced green roof maintenance techniques to hands-on tours of Philadelphia’s most progressive green roofs and walls, there… [Read more…]
Right now I imagine you are gearing up for what I hope will be a restful, enjoyable Thanksgiving. At PHS, we are thankful for the opportunity to co-host CitiesAlive, the 9th Annual Green Roof and Wall Conference, from November 30 to December 3. CitiesAlive is the only conference in North America devoted to the green… [Read more…]
In an amusing display of irony, when the PHS parks team visited New York City to tour three amazing examples of reclaimed public spaces—the Brooklyn Bridge Park, the High Line, and the Concrete Plant Park in the South Bronx—they found themselves completely unable to find a place to park. However, after a great deal of… [Read more…]
May 21, 2012 by Annalee
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