Results tagged “flowers”

It smells wonderful in the Azalea Garden. Located just behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the garden is chockablock with azalea bushes, rhododendrons, lilacs, different kinds of trees, and various other plants I can't identify. Azaleas are early and quick bloomers—they peak in May and by now, their blooms have, for the most part, faded away. However, the rest of the garden is still going strong, attracting many people for a picnic or a tour on a Segway. Thanks to the Segway tour that rolled through the garden last time I was relaxing there with a book, I learned that the tree I was sitting under was a "weeping willow on the top and a cherry tree on the bottom." Also thanks to the Segway tour, I had the strange feeling that I was about to battle robo-humans.

                                     

We apologize for the lateness of this post—our review-in-photos of the 2009 Philadelphia Flower Show, themed "Bella Italia"—but we had too many photos to shelve the post. So we hope you'll indulge us for a few minutes and enjoy this selection of photos from the show, whittled down to 37 from nearly 200. (And be glad we're not making you sit through the rest!)

We like trees and we like food, so we’re obviously enamored of The Philadelphia Orchard Project. The organization, more manageably referred to as POP, is a local non-profit who plant orchards which then provide healthy produce, offered to communities in need at low cost or for free. This Saturday they will join forces with the Norris Square Neighborhood Project and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to go on a planting rampage with flowers and fruit trees at existing gardens and a new lot in the Norris Square Community. The women’s collective of NSNP, Grupo Motivos, will host the Urban Seminar in Norris Square in conjunction with the plantings; that event is expected to draw over 400 students from local universities. Want to get in on the dirty action? Show up at 2nd and Palethorp Streets between Susquehanna and Dauphin at 10AM this Saturday, grab a shovel, and get to work.

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