PHS Announces 2009 City Gardens Contest Winners
PHILADELPHIA -- The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is honoring the contributions of hundreds of city gardeners for their efforts in transforming their own back yards, neighborhoods and communities across Philadelphia.
This year, close to 400 individuals and groups entered the 35th annual City Gardens Contest. Categories included school gardens, community parks, flower and vegetable gardens, children’s gardens, container gardens, garden blocks and more. Volunteer judges visited each site over the summer and 150 winners were chosen. A full list of winners is available at the PHS Press Room.
“The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is proud of each and every entrant for their efforts to improve their own spaces and the city through greening,” said Blaine Bonham, Jr., PHS’s executive vice president. “Winners’ gardens included everything from innovative planters that capture storm water and rain gardens to rooftop gardens and green roofs.”
Bonham will honor the winners and present several special awards, including the annual Eugene E. Smith Memorial Award, at the 2010 Philadelphia International Flower Show, “Passport to the World.” The Show will be held Feb. 28 – March 7 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Launched in 1975, the City Gardens Contest is open to all Philadelphia residents and recognizes amateur gardeners for their dedication, creativity and maintenance of gardening projects in the city. For more information, please visit www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org.
COMMUNITY CATEGORIES
School Gardens
First Place
William McKinley Elementary School, 2101 N. Orkney St., 19151
John H. Taggart School, 400 West Porter St., 19129
Greene Towne School, 2121 Arch St., 19103
Second Place
St. Francis Xavier School, 24th and Pennsylvania Ave, 19130
Richard Allen Prep Charter School, 2601 S. 58th Street, 19143
Community Children’s Gardens
First place
Teens 4 Good, 8th & Poplar Streets, 19107
Urban Nutrition Initiative, 3601 Filbert Street (University City), 19104
Blaine School–Strawberry Mansion Environmental Learning Center, 3008-3038 W. Berks Street, 19129
Second Place
100 block N. Mole St., 19102
The Pentridge Children’s Garden, 4929 Pentridge Street, 19143
Third place
Ken Crest Kensington Center, 900 Block of E. Ontario Street, 19134
Combination Vegetable/Flower Gardens
(Includes small, mid-sized, large, very large, and first-year gardens)
First place
Aspen Farms, 49th & Aspen Streets, 19139
Bel Arbor Community Garden, 1010-1040 Kimball Street, 19147
Capitolo Garden, 10th & Federal Streets, 19147
Fitzwater 2000 Community Garden, 2042-44 Fitzwater Street, 19146
Hansberry Garden & Nature Center, Wayne Avenue & Hansberry Street, 19144
Las Parcelas, 2238 N. Palethorp Street, 19122
The Spring Gardens, 18th & Wallace Streets, 19130
Second Place
Holly St. Neighbors Community Garden, 321-323 N. Holly Street/320-322 N. 41st Street
Roots Community Garden, 6th & Spencer Streets, 19120
Schuylkill River Park Community Garden, 25th & Manning Streets, 19146
South St. Community Garden, 839 South Street, 19147
Southwark/Queen Village Garden, 311-333 Christian Street, 19147
Waverly St. Community Garden, 1131 Waverly Street, 19147
55th St. & Baltimore Ave., 19143
1035-37 S. 6th St., 19147
Third Place
Awbury Arboretum Community Garden, 6330 Ardleigh Street, 19138
Pemberton Garden, South 19th Street, 19146
Pulaski-Zeralda Community Garden, 4537-39 Pulaski Avenue, 19144
Sloan St. Community Garden, 336 N. Sloan Street, 19104
Summer-Winter Garden, 33rd & Race Street, 19104
Villa Africana Colobo, 2266 N. Palethorp Street, 19112
2614-2620 Frankford Ave., 19125
Community Flower Gardens
(Small, mid-sized, large)
First Place
The Horticulture Center Volunteer Garden, Horticultural Ctr. - Montgomery Ave. & Horticultural Dr., 19131
Keystone & Rawle Streets, 19125
Stillman St. Garden, 846 N. Stillman, 19130
Second Place
Hands-On Garden of Associated Services for the Blind, Horticultural Ctr. - Montgomery Ave. & Horticultural Dr., 19118
Hicks St. Memory Garden, 1835 S. Hicks Street, 19145
48th St. & Baltimore Ave., 19143
Third Place
Programs Employing People, 1200 S. Broad St., 19146
1456-60 N. Hollywood St., 19121
Point Breeze Pioneers, 2056 Ellsworth St., 19146
Oak Lane Library, 6614 N. 12th St., 19126
Garden Blocks (Window boxes & sidewalk planters)
First Place
2400 block, Olive St., 19130
Second Place
Chestnut Hill Garden District, 7600 - 8600 Germantown Avenue, 19118
Third Place
3800 block, Baring St., 19104
Greenest Blocks in Town
First Place
800 block, Lombard St., 19147
4600 block, Hazel Ave., 19143
Second Place
The English Village, 2100 Block of St. James Place, 19103
3400 block, Midvale Ave., 19129
3400 block, W. Penn St., 19129
6200 block, Ellsworth St., 19143
Third Place
800 block, Jeanes St., 19111
Community Parks
(Small, mid-sized, large)
First Place
Cloverly Park, Wissahickon Avenue and Schoolhouse Lane, 19144
Fitler Square, 23rd & Pine Streets, 19146
Liberty Lands, 900 Block of N. 3rd Street, 19123
Memory Lane/Ogden Park, North 20th & Ogden Streets, between Parrish and Poplar Streets and over to Uber Street, 19130
Second Place
Beck Park, Corner of 2nd & Beck Streets (Between Christian & Queen Streets), 19147
Cliveden Park, 6415 Musgrave Street, 19150
Friends of Campbell Square, Belgrade Street & Allegheny Avenue, 19134
Friends of Gorgas Park, 7300 Ridge Avenue, 19128
Friends of Konrad Square, 2200-2226 E. Dauphin Street, 19125
Palmer Park, Frankford Ave. & Palmer Street, 19125
Paolone Park, 700 Block of Sears Street, 19147
Third Place
Carroll Park, 58th Street & Girard Avenue, 19131
Friends of Bardascino Park, 10th & Carpenter Streets, 19147
Friends of Mario Lanza Park, 200 Block of Catharine Street, 19147
Overington Park, Orthodox and Pilling Streets, 19124
Royal Gardens in Morris Park, 900 N. 68th Street, 19151
Wissinoming Park, Cheltenham Avenue between Frankford & Charles, 19135
Vegetable Gardens
First place
The Southerners, 43rd & Ogden Streets, 19104
15th & Butler streets, 19140
914 S. Bodine St., 19147
Second place
Tippy & Tula Community Garden, 132 W. Apsley Street, 19144
Warrington Community Garden, 4731 Warrington Avenue, 19143
1933-1943 N. 31st St., 19121
Third place
Seedy Acres South, 913 N. Leithgow Street, 19123
12800 Townsend Rd., 19146
INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES
Combination Vegetable/Flower Gardens
First place
Thomasina E. Goodwin, 19132
Diane Kunze & John Neugebauer, 19124
Toney Lucas, 19131
Debbie Rhoe, 19121
Second place
Dan Iaccio, 19136
Ian Kiesel, 19146
Mark Ladzinski, 19154
Judy Lustig & T. J. Scully, 19126
Antoinette Russell, 19104
Third place
Cynthia Bly, 19111
Joseph Ammaturo, 19115
Cara Frank, 19146
Marianne Miller, 19152
Christine Mumbauer, 19134
Roger VanDragt, 19130
Container Gardens (Includes balconies, patios, decks, and rooftops)
First place
Craig Bailey & Norval Copeland, 19146
Nick Balko & Casey Watson, 19122
Jennifer Brandenburg & Steven Marcus, 19103
Beth Darrow, 19130
Renaldo James, 19139
Ellen Henri Hymans, 19131
Jeannette Morrissey, 19102
Brad Oister, 19147
Viery Ricketts-Thomas, 19151
Michael Sparano, 19103
Second place
Cherry Bombeck, 19106
Zelma Gorham, 19131
Jenelle Harriff, 19148
Mark Jerde, 19127
Venesse Lloyd-Sgambati, 19151
Patty Morgan, 19148
Dr. Gerald Ross, OD, 19145
Judy Schwartz, 19131
Veronica Shelton, 19144
JoAnn Stein, 19147
Reuben Wade & Janice Smith, 19147
Third place
Regan Cooper, 19147
Jason Currie, 19148
William Fisher, 19103
Sheila Kessler, 19103
Gil Ortale, 19147
Keith Peltzman, 19147
Nina Phalen & Edgar Smith, 19125
Lora Russo & Alex Duller, 19145
Brian Wormley, 19146
Flower Gardens
(Mini, small, mid-sized, large)
First place
Iris Brown, 19118
Alfred & Debbie Bilstein, 19128
Gail Chapman, 19147
Mike DiStefano, 19145
Brandon Fisher, 19129
Don Fortune, 19114
David Harwitz, 19106
Gus Scheerbaum, 19146
Susan Smith, 19118
Bernadette Parisi, 19125
Mark Vandegrift, 19111
Second Place
Conrad Booker & Adam Kantorski, 19147
Barbara Dallao, 19130
Shirley Daly, 19119
Thomas Duffy, 19118
Barbara Graham, 19134
Theresa Halbherr, 19111
Joann Hyle, 19118
Alex Myers, 19114
Ed Rice & Ken Oakes, 19119
Monica Calkins Wagner, 19139
Third place
Brian Ames, 19119
Una Esther Coyle, 19124
Earl Eberwein, 19118
Karen Eskridge, 19115
Marita Fitzpatrick, 19122
Anna Gauss, 19111
Charlie Heiser, 19119
Megan Jann, 19147
Lynn Laville-Mills, 19139
Lucille McGee, 19131
Elizabeth A. Plepis, 19142
Bernice & Jeanne Rothwarf, 19111
Valerie T. Santiago, 19151
Christopher & Emily Stromberg, 19146
Sharon Tice, 19130
Vegetable Gardens
(Small, mid-sized, large)
First place
Lawrence King, 19150
Eva Sanders, 19131
Domenico Scicchitano, 19115
Second place
Giovanni Cancelliere, 19115
Libero Cancelliere, 19115
John Caniz, 19134
Ernest Meyer, 19111
Third place
Hubert Harrison, 19121
Brandon Huber, 19154
Fred Indictor, 19115
Rosa Miriello, 19135
Denice Witkowski, 19146
Children’s Gardens
First place
Taryn JiHae Flaherty, 19103
For more information Contact:
Alan Jaffe at 215-988-8833
Laura Hoover at 215-988-8836
