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Joe Palimeno of Ledden Palimeno Design-Build Landscape Company in Sewell, New Jersey, is celebrating two victories for his exhibit, “The Modernist Garden” at the 2012 Singapore Garden Festival. Because of Joe’s 20 years of experience creating 46 exhibits—and winning five “Best in Shows” at the Philadelphia International Flower Show—he was invited to Singapore to compete […]
The Philadelphia Water Department (PWD), with whom PHS is a proud partner, is one of six entities to be honored by The Clean Water America Alliance with its 2012 U.S. Water Prize for their watershed-based approach toward water sustainability. “These six water champions are showing America how to innovate, integrate, and educate for water sustainability […]
Big news from overseas: the PHS Pop Up Garden from 2011 will be showcased at the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale. The theme this year is “Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good.” What an honor! The goal of Spontaneous Interventions is to “frame an archive of compelling, actionable strategies, […]
PHS is leading a trip to the Storm King Art Center on Thursday, June 14. The group will travel on a roomy coach to the lower Hudson Valley, home to one of the world’s leading sculpture parks. Storm King Art Center (one hour north of New York City) offers a 500-acre landscape of fields, hills, […]
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 […]
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 […]
July 25, 2012 by Barb
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