“Flower Power” will be in the spotlight at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s 2019 Philadelphia Flower Show. During the week-long event, Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture students and faculty will invite visitors to “get hip to living more responsibly.” Temple’s exhibit, Hip Haven: Hangin’ Loose at a Home Refuge, will recognize the stark contrast between the forces in the 1960s that were, and continue, to shape the nation.
The exhibit will incorporate the harsh, unyielding features of “The Machine” and the free-flowing, free-thinking ideals of the hippie counter-culture in “The Haven.”
Students, faculty and staff are invited to purchase their Flower Show tickets through Temple for $35 and support the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture! Purchases may be made online by visiting alumni.temple.edu/flower19. For more information on ticket purchases, contact Crisbel Baez at crisbelm@temple.edu or 267-468-8020.
Each year, Temple Landscape Architecture and Horticulture students seek to strike a perfect balance between the natural landscape, architecture, landscape design, horticulture, art and sustainability on one of the largest stages for their craft. Students and faculty spend months creating vivid displays that while dazzling to the eye also provide a practical level of application for sustainable concepts from green roofs, wetland gardens and land reclamation to porous paving, utilizing greywater and gardens as places of healing.
Their exhibits have taken visitors from the coasts of Ireland to the Big Easy in New Orleans, from the volcanic mountains of Hawaii to the Renaissance gardens of Italy.