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Happy Gardeners - Tree Planting & Urban Gardening Resources
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items I love nature but live in the city, and there's always an opportunity to go-green! Whether you’ve got a backyard, a balcony, or just a love for leafy things, this list is your go-to guide for making Philadelphia a little greener. From free tree progr...
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Philly Local Plants & Trees
Best Plant Resources & Books
Great Public Green Spaces in Philly
Philly Local Plants & Trees
I LOVE a god local plant shop! If you are ready to green up your block or balcony, this list features Philly’s best urban garden nurseries, native plant shops, and local programs that can help you score a free street tree for your sidewalk. Whether y...
Get a Tree! Beautifying the neighborhood by bringing tree coverage to the streets of East Kensington, Kensington and Fishtown
Philly Tree People
PHS uses horticulture to increase four building blocks of health and well-being: access to fresh food, healthy living environments, deep social connections, and economic opportunities. We are a diverse community of people and organizations who believ...
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
They offer plants for the customer who is buying their first plant and for someone looking for something exotic and unusual (and everyone in-between).
City Planter
Curt Alexander created Urban Jungle with one mission in mind: to bring greenery into urban environments.
Urban Jungle - South Philly
The PHS Philadelphia Flower Show is the nation’s largest and longest-running horticultural event and features stunning displays by the world’s premier floral and landscape designers.
Philadelphia Flower Show
STUMP is a family-owned retail business offering one-on-one education and guidance for our guests to ensure that you have a successful experience owning and caring for your houseplants.
Stump Plants - Northern Liberties
In their Nursery and Greenhouse, you’ll find quality, locally sourced plants, trees, and shrubs. Primex has a wide selection of top-of-the-line gardening tools and supplies from your favorite old standbys to current sustainable innovations. Their War...
Primex Garden Center - Glenside PA
Best Plant Resources & Books
While I love gardening I definitely need some help. Bringing the outdoors in (or sprucing up your garden) has never been easier. This list features trusted online shops that deliver healthy, happy plants right to your door—whether you’re after low-ma...
best for beginning to intermediate houseplant hobbyists who are shopping for themselves and want a reliable, affordable online plant shop.
Horti - A Plant Subscription that Builds Confidence in Plant Care
the best place to buy plants online when you’re shopping for a gift
Rooted - Online Plant Delivery
Bloomscape is here to help strengthen your relationship with plants. We make buying plants easy by delivering healthy, ready-to-go plants to your door and setting you up with the tips and tricks you need to help your plants thrive. Plants make life b...
Bloomscape | Home Ready Plants Delivered to Your Door
Get wonderful plants, plant care tips, exclusive offers too,
The Sill | House Plant Delivery & Biophilic Design
Fantastic book if you are in the city as a container garden is a great way to green the concrete jungle.
Container Gardening for Beginners: A Guide
If you think it’s impossible to grow your own food because you don’t have a large yard or you live in the city…think again.
Field Guide to Urban Gardening: Grow Anywhere
Creating colour and interest in a small urban garden by growing a range of flowers and other decorative plants brings with it many rewards. Carolyn Dunster shows you what to grow and how to use your own blooms, leaves and berries in a range of indoor...
Urban Flowers: Abundant Small City Garden
This comprehensive guide has everything you need to know to successfully design and maintain an urban garden in whatever space and conditions you have available.
The City Gardener's Handbook: Small-Space Guide
Fabulous book where you’ll find dozens of inspiring and creative ways to grow flowers, shrubs, vegetables, herbs, and other plants in small spaces and with a limited budget.
The Urban Garden: 101 Ways to Grow Food
I like how Rebel Gardening shows that anyone can grow a garden of delicious organic fruit and vegetables, wildlife-friendly wildflowers and abundant herbs in absolutely any urban space with a bit of know-how.
Rebel Gardening: Beginner's Organic Guide
Great Public Green Spaces in Philly
A fabulous list that highlights Philadelphia’s most beloved parks and peaceful green spaces. These are places I venture out into when I need a quick pick-me-up.
Philadelphia's Fairmount Park is home to trails, woodlands, wetlands, adventure courses, historic homes and more — all within city limits.
Fairmount Park Conservancy
There are dozens of miles of trails in Wissahickon Valley Park, a lush, 1,800-acre gorge, crossing forest and meadow before plunging down to the sun-dappled waters of the Wissahickon Creek.
Wissahickon Valley Park
A park located along the Delaware River in the southernmost point of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, comprising some 348 acres
FDR Park
Bartram's Garden is a 50-acre public garden and National Historic Landmark in Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, situated on the banks of the Tidal Schuylkill River. Founded in 1728 by botanist John Bartram, it is the oldest botanical garden to su...
Bartram's Garden | Southwest Philadelphia's Home for Horticulture
Rittenhouse Square is a public park in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is the center of the eponymous Rittenhouse neighborhood. The square is one of the five original open-space parks planned by William Penn and his surveyor Thomas Holme ...
Rittenhouse Square - Center City Philly
Named after the Lenni Lenape Indian word for slow-moving water, Pennypack Park stretches nine miles, following Pennypack Creek southeast as it runs from Montgomery County to the Delaware River. The park covers more than 1,600 acres of woodlands, mead...
Pennypack Park - NE Philly
Escape the city’s hubbub and bask in an “aaaahhhh” moment at Franklin Square. One of William Penn’s five original squares, Franklin Square park is steeped in history and brimming with fun for everyone. Bordering Philadelphia’s Historic District and t...
Franklin Square - Historic Philadelphia
Excellent summertime park, particularly at night. It features colorful hammocks, floating gardens, stunning technicolored lights, local craft beers, and delicious food from some of Philadelphia’s most popular restaurants.
Spruce Street Harbor Park - Philadelphia
Fung walk with great views of the city along this multi-use path that extends 120 miles.
Schuylkill River Trail
Washington Square, originally designated in 1682 as Southeast Square, is a 6.4 acres open-space park in Center City, Philadelphia, The southeast quadrant and one of the five original planned squares laid out on the city grid by William Penn's surveyo...
Washington Square Park