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| Displaying events for the week following January 6, 2009. |
| | Thursday, January 8, 2009 | 5:45pm - 7:45pm
Book Club: Stories From the Garden
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Open to the public and members
In this book discussion group, which meets in the 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: Rick Bass, The Lives of Rocks (selected short stories)...
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society McLean Library
100 North 20th Street, 1st Floor
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Friday, January 9, 2009 | 10:30am - 11:30am
City Gardening Series: Designing Hanging Baskets
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Presented by Mona Gold
Open to the public and members
Horticultural therapist Mona Gold demonstrates how mixing color and textures are the two most important elements of designing a pleasing mixed basket.
The City Gardening Series is generously supported through a collaborative partnership with Chanticleer ... A Pleasure Garden, in Wayne, Pa.
Perzel Community Center
2990 St. Vincent Street
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Monday, January 12, 2009 | 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Free Lecture Series: Grasses, Rushes and Sedges
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Presented by Professor Karen Snetselaar
Open to the public and members
PHS and the Wagner Free Institute of Science will co-sponsor this series of lectures on six Mondays: January 12, 26; February 24, 9, 16, 23. (No class on January 19).
The grasses are arguably the most important family of plants in terms of human impact. Nearly every world food culture has a member of the grass family as its major protein source...
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 N. 20th Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
| | | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | 10:00am - 11:30pm
2009 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
|  | Noon - 1:00pm
Brown Bag Lunch: Tournament of Roses Parade
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Presented by Melinda Moritz
Open to the public and members
In January 2008, Philadelphia Flower Show designer Sam Lemheney was invited to be one of three judges for the Tournament of Roses Parade. A group of Flower Show exhibitors, led by Jane Pepper, joined Sam in Pasadena. The group had the opportunity to help decorate two of the floats and was hosted by Jim Folsom, Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Huntington, for a personal tour of the garden...
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
| | 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Evening Book Reading: Vanished Gardens by Sharon White
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Presented by Sharon White
Open to the public and members
New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. She explores Philadelphia's gardens as a part of the city’s ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home....
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
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