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Plant-lovers: Enter the PHS Gardening Contest

Another socially-distant activity for your quarantine

Are you a non-professional gardener from PA, NJ or Delaware?

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) wants you to enter its 2020 PHS Gardening Contest. Earn points for sustainable things like composting, planting pollinator-friendly pots, conserving water and sharing the fruits of your labor with others.

Categories include things like gardens in public spaces, (including urban farms and community gardens), outdoor home gardens, front stoop container gardens, backyard vegetable and/or flower beds, and new for 2020 – “Houseplants” for indoor plant lovers.

Get gardening tips and suggestions through the PHS website and the PHS Home Gardening Facebook Group page.

Submit photos and answer a questionnaire to enter by June 22, 2020. Once you register, you’ll be able to upload photos,

Cover photo: Get garden inspo from the PHS Flower Show 2019


Julie Hancher

Julie Hancher is Editor-in-Chief of Green Philly, sharing her expertise of all things sustainable in the city of brotherly love. She enjoys long walks in the park with local beer and greening her travels, cooking & cat, Sir Floofus Drake.

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