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The Green Resource Center at Norristown Farm Park, located along West Germantown Pike across from Einstein Medical Center Montgomery, will use an existing barn. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, which produces the annual Philadelphia Flower Show, is bringing a Green Resource Center to Montgomery County. The site at the Norristown Farm Park is expected to be fully operational in the spring.
“I think it’s going to be a beautiful addition to a really incredible park,” said Julianne Schrader Ortega, vice president of PHS and chief of its Healthy Neighborhoods initiative.
The new center will include a 2-acre teaching farm, a greenhouse partially powered by solar energy, a wash station, community garden beds, a shading area for seedlings, and a pavilion for public programs.
Every year, I look forward to the month of March, with both the Philadelphia Flower Show and my birthday falling in the same week. What better present than to be able to spend a day or two at the Philadelphia Convention Center, soaking up the sight of beautiful plants and intriguing landscape ideas, and learning new growing tips? This year, though, due to the pandemic, both the time and the location of the Show have been moved. The 2021 Show will be held in June. And, for the first time in the Showâs 192-year history, it will be held outdoors.
EAST NORRITON â As it prepares to debut an outdoor version of the Philadelphia Flower Show in June, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has another monumental project in the works â a Green Resource Center at the Norristown Farm Park.
Expected to be operational sometime this spring, the center, which will be located along West Germantown Pike across from Einstein Medical Center Montgomery, will include a two-acre teaching farm, a greenhouse with heating and cooling systems powered in part by solar energy, a shade area for seedlings, a wash station, a pavilion for public programming, pollinator gardens, community garden beds, and workforce development opportunities in conjunction with YWCA Tri-County Area.