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In support of TreeVitalize, PHS, in partnership with Penn State Cooperative Extension, offers nine hours of hands-on tree care training for residents of the five-county Philadelphia region. The free training will cover tree biology, identification, planting, proper care and working within your community.

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society motivates people to improve the quality of life and create a sense of community through horticulture. Offers nine hours of hands-on tree care training for residents of the five-county Philadelphia region. The free training will cover tree biology, identification, planting, proper care and working within your community.

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1827. Under the leadership of Jane G Pepper, PHS provides great events, activities and publications for novice gardeners, experienced horticulturists, and flower lovers of all ages.

 

Founded in 1827, PHS is recognized as a national leader in its use of horticulture as a means to build community, improve the quality of life, and enable people from all walks of life to understand and appreciate the natural environment and their relationship to it. Whether it be presenting the world's largest indoor flower show, offering educational programs and services to its 14,000 members or helping urban neighborhoods create verdant green spaces through the Philadelphia Green program, PHS is distinct in its ability to use horticulture as a means to bring people together.

In the past, PHS has been successful in its efforts because of the extraordinary generosity of many friends and supporters. Ensuring PHS's place in the future and carrying out the mission into the 21st century will be a financial challenge. We must grow our endowment and resources so that future generations can continue to enjoy and benefit from a quality of life that is consistently improved through horticulture.

 

PHS offers the Tree Tenders and Garden Tenders training courses. Begun in Philadelphia, the Tree Tenders project teaches people how to plant and care for community trees and continues to reach out to people in southeastern Pennsylvania through TreeVitalize, a program of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The Garden Tenders training teaches city residents how to start and maintain community gardens. Graduates of the six-hour course have developed a, lively network with an active schedule of ongoing workshops at gardens, across Philadelphia.

 

- Organizes residents and local groups to maintain parks, plant and maintain-tree-lined streets, and transform vacant lots into community gardens and open spaces.

 

- Training in group development, project planning, and fundraising

Horticultural education

 

- Landscape architecture services

- Ongoing technical support

- PHS also produces and manages a variety of shows, competitions, and programs, including: The Philadelphia Flower Show, the largest indoor flower show in the world. Proceeds from the Philadelphia Flower Show support PHS's programs, including neighborhood and public landscape greening projects through Philadelphia Green.

 

-PHS offers many services, including garden tours and publications.

  - Kids Grow Expo

  - City Gardens Contest

 

- In Fiscal Year 2008, 270 members of The 1827 Society contributed $893,500.

- This includes 43 President's Circle memberships, a leadership category of the 1827 Society, at the $10,000 level.

- PHS laid the groundwork for the Legacy Landscapes campaign to raise $12.1 million in endowment funds to support the horticultural maintenance of PHS's major civic, landscapes and Keystone community, gardens.

- PHS offers lectures, workshops, and field trips, including the free City Gardening Series, supported through a collaborative partnership

- Over the past year, this series included 104 education events attended by 1,884 people at libraries and other community sites in Philadelphia.

- This past year, we added multimedia offerings, including video clips and Flash slideshows, throughout the site. www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org.