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| | Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 5:45pm - 7:45pm
Book Group: Stories From the Garden
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Open to the public and members
In this book discussion group, which meets in the PHS McLean Library, we read and discuss works of fiction or non-fiction having to do with gardens, plants, or the land. Participants need to obtain books and read each monthly selection prior to the discussion.
January selection: Jane Stevenson, Garden Guerrillas (novella IN: Good Women)...
PHS McLean Library
100 North 20th Street, 1st Floor
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Saturday, January 9, 2010 | 8:30am - 1:00pm
Tree Tenders Training, Philadelphia
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Open to the public and members
Two Saturdays: January 9 & 16, 8:30 am -1 pm
BECOME A TREE TENDER! Become part of the “growing” TreeVitalize program designed by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to increase Southeast Pennsylvania’s tree cover and promote the benefits that trees offer us all.
PHS Tree Tenders training is free and includes tree biology, urban stresses on trees, tree identification, basic tree pruning and root care, tree planting, and community organizing...
PHS
100 N. 20th Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 10:00am - 11:30am
2010 Philadelphia Flower Show Competitive Classes Committee Meeting
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Open to committee members only.
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 N. 20th Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | Noon - 1:30pm
Brown-Bag Lunch: Burma - A Photographic Journey through the Lost Golden Land
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Presented by Penny Hansen
Open to the public and members
Penny Hansen’s interest in photography has grown over the past five years, but a visit to India in 2007 turned her hobby into a passion. She revisited India later that year to participate in an intensive photographic workshop with a renowned National Geographic photographer, travelling throughout Rajasthan to photograph village life, tribal festivals, and a camel fair...
PHS Auditorium
100 N. 20th Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Thursday, January 14, 2010 | 10:00am - Noon
Meadowbrook Farm Workshop: Glass Bowl Terrarium
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Presented by Sharon Kaszan
Open to the public and members
In the depths of winter, what could be better than to brighten your home with a lush, green, miniature world under glass? Only certain plants can grow in a glass terrarium, and the planting procedure requires special attention. But once assembled, your mini plant world is easy to care for, requiring minimal pruning and watering...
Meadowbrook Farm
1633 Washington Lane
Abington Township, PA
| | | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | 9:30am - 11:30am
2010 Philadelphia Flower Show Competitive Class Meeting: Tables
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Meeting for confirmed exhibitors in the Tables Class for the 2010 Flower Show.
PHS
100 N. 20th Street, Suite 205
Philadelphia, PA
|  | 1:30pm - 3:30pm
2010 Philadelphia Flower Show Competitive Class Meeting: Back Yards
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Meeting for confirmed exhibitors in the Back Yards Class for the 2010 Flower Show.
PHS
100 N. 20th Street, Suite 205
Philadelphia, PA
| | 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Film Discussion Group
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Open to the public and members
Do you love to watch movies and talk about them? Join us in this film discussion series, where we’ll talk about movies in which nature, gardens, or the environment play a starring role.
This year’s selections will focus on films from countries featured in the 2010 Philadelphia Flower Show, Passport to the World, and will include films from or set in the Netherlands, South Africa, Brazil, India, and New Zealand...
PHS McLean Library
100 North 20th Street, 1st Floor
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Free Lecture Series: Fungi and Plants
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Presented by Dr. Karen Snetselaar
Open to the public and members
Wednesday, 1/20; five Mondays, 1/25 through 2/22.
The fungi constitute an entire kingdom of organisms, just as plants and animals do, but they are far less well-known. While perhaps 100,000 species of fungi have been named, compared with over 300,000 plant species, some experts have suggested that there may be 10 times more fungal species than plant species...
PHS Auditorium, 5th floor
100 N. 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA
| | 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Free Lecture Series: Fungi and Plants
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Presented by Dr. Karen Snetselaar
Open to the public and members
PHS and the Wagner Free Institute of Science will co-sponsor this series of lectures on the following dates: Wednesday, January 20; then five Mondays, January 25 through February 22.
The fungi constitute an entire kingdom of organisms, just as plants and animals do, but they are far less well known...
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 N. 20th Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Thursday, January 21, 2010 | 9:30am - 11:30am
2010 Philadelphia Flower Show Competitive Class Meeting: Front Porch
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Meeting for confirmed exhibitors in the Front Porch Class for the 2010 Flower Show.
PHS
100 N. 20th Street, Suite 205
Philadelphia, PA
| | 1:30pm - 3:30pm
2010 Philadelphia Flower Show Competitive Class Meeting: Balconies
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Meeting for confirmed exhibitors in the Balconies Class for the 2010 Flower Show.
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 N. 20th Street, Suite 205
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Saturday, January 23, 2010 | 11:00am - Noon
City Gardening Series: The Pursuit of Growing Award-Winning Houseplants
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Presented by Stephen Maciejewski
Open to the public and members
Ever wonder how to grow houseplants for exhibition? Through his slide presentation, 'Hunting the Blue,' garden writer and community gardener Stephen Maciejewski will share his experience growing and maintaining houseplants worthy of a Flower Show blue ribbon.
Dorothy Emanuel Recreation Center
8500 Provident Street
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | 9:30am - 11:30am
2010 Philadelphia Flower Show Competitive Class Meeting: Storefronts
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Meeting for confirmed exhibitors in the Storefronts Class for the 2010 Flower Show.
PHS
100 N. 20th Street, Suite 205
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | Noon - 1:30pm
Brown-Bag Lunch: Traveling Through Scottish Gardens with Jane Pepper
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Presented by Jane Pepper
Open to the public and members
PHS president Jane Pepper will share pictures and stories from the tour she took with PHS members last June to visit gardens in her native land. Their travels started south of Edinburgh in the rich, fertile country along the River Tweed, which forms the border between Scotland and England. Next they travelled to the Southwest, where the annual rainfall is twice that of the East coast, a perfect environment for large evergreens and water gardens...
PHS Auditorium
100 N. 20th Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Saturday, January 30, 2010 | 8:45am - 12:45pm
Philadelphia Green Skills Conference
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Open to the public, members and professionals
Join us for a morning of learning, sharing, and networking for people involved in community greening. This year’s conference will focus on stormwater management through community greening.
Includes a special two-hour Garden Tenders training: Starting a Community Garden.
Scholarships are available...
McNeil Science and Technology Center (McNeil STC)
723 S. 43rd Street
Philadelphia, PA
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