mmmm plants and the city: Urban Jungle, Longwood Gardens, Art in the Age

So it’s way to hot for early April, but the plants are loving it, all exploding with color everywhere.  Communing with nature is pretty easy whether you are at home or out and about.  Below are a couple of places you should check out in Philadelphia to get your spring on.

Last Saturday was the opening of Urban Jungle in the always delightful East Passyunk Ave. neighborhood in South Philadelphia.  Specializing in vertical landscaping, I was super excited that they actually sell Woolly Pockets as well as the GRO2 GroWall System.  Oh, I cannot wait for the day when I can have a deck or a small yard or space on my walls to get some vertical garden action.  Besides vertical gardening stuff, they have tons of other urban garden accoutrements, definitely worth a visit.  Make a day of it, visit them, eat at Mr. Martino’s, and get a gelato at Capogiro’s.

Making Scents: the Art and Passion of Fragrance at Longwood Gardens

I read about the Longwood Gardens event in this month’s issue of Nylon. It’s Longwood Gardens’ first major exhibition and offers an olfactive examination of fragrance production, including a heavenly selection of flowers and plants in the Conservatory and the opportunity to make your own fragrance!  The exhibition opens on April 10 and runs through November 21, 2010.

image courtesy of Longwood Gardens

Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is hosting a workshop on Native Plants and the Urban Garden on Wednesday, April 14 from 6-8 pm.  The workshop will be led by Joanne Donohue, Manager of Land Restoration for the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. Sweet!

image courtesy of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction