Led by Helen Standen, Greenhouse & Nursery Manager Children ages 4-10 years will create a vegetable container garden that will provide all the ingredients they need to make a nutritious and delicious pizza (aside from the pepperoni and mozzarella of course!) Tomatoes, peppers and herbs planted in April will be ready to harvest by August. Prefer to spice things up a bit? Substitute out parsley for cilantro and sweet for hot pepper and you will …

Public Plant Sale: Saturday, May 5, 9 am-3 pm Sunday, May 6, 11 am-3 pm Presented by the Valley Forge Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society A not-to-be-missed annual event, this is one of the largest public garden plant sales in the area. Offered will be plants ideally suited for area gardens, including rhododendrons, azaleas, and companion plants not readily available elsewhere. Thousands of perennials, native wild owers, ferns, and slow-growing conifers, as well as donated …

Travel with us to upper Bucks County to visit two of the regions great gardens. The first stop will be Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, the only accredited botanical garden in the country dedicated to native plants. In fact, there are over 700 native plant species growing naturally on the preserve’s 134 acres. Guided by trained naturalists, you will see many of these beauties scattered along 2 1⁄2 miles of trails in a variety of habitats …