garden

Transform Your Lawn into a Thriving Meadow! You can make a critical difference in fostering the health of our planet. Join us for a four-part immersive course on converting traditional lawns into vibrant, biodiverse meadows. Whether you’re a home gardener, professional landscaper, or a budding ecologist — we can...

Bluestem Botanicals is a certified organic herb farm in Doylestown PA. We are holding our annual medicinal plant sale on Saturday May 27 from 10a-4p. In addition to our plants we will also have our herbal wellness products and our...

Join the Friends of Laurel Hill in our native plant garden and green burial area, Nature’s Sanctuary, for a therapeutic horticulture series that invites you to relax, reflect, and restore. Working with the healing power of plants can help to...

No matter how long you live in Philadelphia, there are always more cool things to discover. These city gardens are some of the best-hidden gems. Whether you’re looking for a quiet lunch spot or place, check these Philadelphia gardens off...

If you dream of having a garden of your own but have limited space and cash, you can create a container garden that fits space you do have available. But where do you begin? You find everything you need from...

Penn State Brandywine’s green thumb just got greener. Penn State Brandywine’s Honors Garden won second prize in the Community Vegetable Garden category of the Delaware County Master Gardeners’ 2015 garden contest this past summer. The Delaware County Master Gardeners is an organization...

This year why not take a break from gifting traditional department store sweaters and ties? A refreshing alternative is available in the form of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Holiday Pop Up Store. PHS has taken over a storefront in a prime retail location in Chesnut Hill. The 400 square-foot space will be transformed into a holiday shopping haven, adorned with birch wood and green garland, accented with touches of glitter and mercury glass, and offering exceptional gifts for the garden, design, culinary, and Flower Show enthusiasts on your holiday list.

I'd like to give a special shout-out today to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society! Philly Mag did a nice write-up about President Drew Becher a few months ago, and they continue to make huge strides in the green community & beautifying Philly. One of the latest efforts reaches out to youths - The Green Machine, a special program run by PHS and funded by the William Penn Foundation, is to deliver expertise and assistance to those who use and love (find out more, after the jump!)

I can be a procrastinator... and due to the weather/vacations/etc, I've delayed on planting my back porch city garden. Starting a garden isn't an easy task - some plants can be easier to grow and benefit from than others. Luckily, I got some advice from MNN's Mother Nature Network to help my planting: