Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Philadelphia Flower Show

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This collection consists of documentation related to the Philadelphia Flower Show from 1829 to the present including tickets, advertisements, posters and high-quality photographs to exhibits and promotional events. Some of the images include buildings that no longer exist, such as Philadelphia's Commercial Museum and Civic Center.
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1983 Philadelphia Flower Show. Lois Burpee
1983 Philadelphia Flower Show. Lois Burpee
Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Green (Program), Burpee, Lois, Philadelphia Flower Show (1983 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
For the 1983 show, the vegetables that appeared in the first Philadelphia Green exhibit were grown by Lois Burpee, widow of David Burpee, of the Burpee seed company, at her home, Fordhook Farm in Bucks County. Lois Burpee supported PHS urban greening efforts and offered the use of Burpee's greenhouses to grow the vegetables.
1983 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1983 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Green (Program), Philadelphia Flower Show (1983 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
With an exhibit titled "Philadelphia Green Street", PHS's Philadelphia Green program had its first ever exhibit at the 1983 Flower Show.
1983 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Street Exhibit
1983 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Street Exhibit
Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Green (Program), Philadelphia Flower Show (1983 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
The first year PHS staged an exhibit to showcase Philadelphia Green, its urban gardening program, was 1983. This exhibit featured a typical Philadelphia street of row houses decorated with colorful window boxes, containers made from recycled automobile tires, a corner sitting garden, and a community vegetable garden planted in the vacant lot between the two houses.
1985 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1985 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Green (Program), Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Flower Show (1985 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
The 1985 Philadelphia Green exhibit “Community Gardening : Bigger Than You Think” featured 20-foot long pea pods atop the exhibit.
1986 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1986 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Green (Program), Philadelphia Flower Show (1986 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Group shot of PHS Philadelphia Green exhbit designers and builders at the 1986 Flower Show. L. to R. front row seated: Anne Vallery, Bill Grubb, Denise Jefferson, Betty Tyler. L to R 2nd row: Blanche Epps, Patricia Schrieber, Barbara Wagner, Charlotte Elsner, Willie Mae Bullock, [unidentified woman], Pearl Romans, Flossie Narducci, Jeannine Vannais, Sally McCabe, Blaine Bonham.
1987 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1987 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Green (Program), Philadelphia Flower Show (1987 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
The 1987 PHS Philadelphia Green exhibit “Iced Tea at Gray’s Ferry” was a playful nod to that year’s Flower Show Central Feature exhibit “Tea at Gray’s Ferry.”
1988 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1988 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Green (Program), Philadelphia Flower Show (1988 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
The 1988 PHS Philadelphia Green exhibit at the Flower Show “Community Gardening: A Patchwork of Roots” celebrated Philadelphia’s rich cultural diversity in its hundreds of community gardens, showcasing vegetables with their roots in European, Asian, and tropical gardens.
1989 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1989 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Green (Program), Philadelphia Flower Show (1989 : Philadelphia), Community gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Philadelphia Green's exhibit for the 1989 Philadelphia Flower Show.
1990 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1990 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Green (Program), Philadelphia Flower Show (1990 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
“Garden Treasures, Community Pleasures” was the 1990 PHS Philadelphia Green Flower Show exhibit. Found objects including whimsical tubs and containers and golden wildflowers weaving a “ribbon of gold” constitute some of the garden treasures to be discovered and admired in the over 700 community gardens in Philadelphia.
1991 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1991 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Flower Show (1991 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Philadelphia Green (Program), Hall, Deborah, Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
PHS staffer Deborah Hall is helping to plant out the 1991 Philadelphia Green (PHS) exhibit "Planting the Future, Inheriting the Harvest."
1991 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1991 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Green (Program), Philadelphia Flower Show (1991 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Philadelphia Green Exhibit for the 1991 Philadelphia Flower Show.
1992 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1992 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Flower Show (1992 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Philadelphia Green (Program), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
The 1992 PHS Philadelphia Green Flower Show exhibit “Reach Out and Grow It” encourages Show visitors to stroll through the Azalea Garden behind the Art Museum, follow the “Ribbon of Gold” (yellow perennials) planted in front of Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary, and meander along Philadelphia city streets lined with street trees and community gardens.
1993 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1993 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Green (Program), Philadelphia Flower Show (1993 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Urban landscaping -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
With a backdrop of a large picture postcard, the 1993 PHS Philadelphia Green exhibit “Greetings from Philadelphia Green” invites Show visitors to see how gardeners transform trash-strewn lots and barren streets into areas filled with flowers and trees.
1994 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1994 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Flower Show (1994 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Philadelphia Green (Program), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
In a nod to the 1994 Flower Show theme “Islands in the Sun” the PHS Philadelphia Green exhibit is “Urban Islands in the Sun” where the “islands” are planted by hundreds of exuberant community gardeners who participate in PHS’s community greening and public landscape efforts across the city.
1995 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1995 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Green (Program), Philadelphia Flower Show (1995 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Titled “Philadelphia Green Garden Galleries” the 1995 PHS Philadelphia Green exhibit highlights the creativity of city gardeners who use sculptures, mosaics and murals to provide a focal point and to personalize urban green spaces.
1996 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
1996 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit
Philadelphia Flower Show (1996 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Green (Program)
The 1996 PHS Philadelphia Green exhibit is “Philadelphia Green: on the Street Where You Live.”