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A volunteer picks up seedlings to donate to a community garden. (Kenny Cooper/WHYY)
As part of its City Harvest Initiative, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society distributed free seedlings and seed packets to about 40 community gardens Saturday at the Farm at Awbury Arboretum.
“These distribution days are so rewarding … seeing the look on these growers’ faces. They’re always enthusiastic and excited because it’s the kickoff of the season,” said Justin Trezza, director of community garden programs for PHS.
Justin Trezza, director of community garden programs for PHS. (Kenny Cooper/WHYY)
The initiative does about five seedling distribution events throughout the year. Since the program started in 2006, it has expanded from a cohort of 15 community gardens to a connected network of 130.
– John S.Stokes Jr.
Queen of the Missions, March 1955.
Paradoxically, the very literature and book learning which destroyed the oral religious traditions of the Christian countrysides during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries took it upon themselves to record the disappearing externals of those same traditions in the nineteenth. It is thus secular lexicographers, not religious tradition, that we are to thank for the preservation of many of the centuries-old popular Mary names of plants which have come down to us today. For this reason many religious people unfamiliar with the old religious plant names.
Mrs. Lillie Pioneers
However, it was not from secular dictionaries that the Mary Flower tradition took root and found new life in the United States in the early nineteen thirties. It came as an offshoot from the old popular tradition which still survives in the monasteries and countrysides of England. For it was in England that Mrs. Frank R. Lillie, of Chicago,
Courtesy of/PHS Above is a rendering of what the 2021 Philadelphia Flower Show will look like at FDR Park. The show will take place outdoors due to COVID-19 precautions.
Back in December, the Philadelphia Flower Show revealed its plans to move outdoors for 2021 due to COVID-19.
The nation s largest and longest-running horticultural event will take place from June 5 through June 13 at FDR Park in South Philly.
As the event draws closer, more details on what to expect have been released by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
At its new location, the show will span 15 acres. That s a 45% increase in size compared to the previous shows held inside the Philadelphia Convention Center.