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Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture Wins Top Honors at the 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show
Flower Show
 
The Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture won the National Park System Director’s Award at the 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show. At a show celebrating the 100th anniversary of the National Park System, it doesn’t get any better than receiving the award for the best interpretation of a national park! Temple’s exhibit, After the Blast: Recollecting Roots and Resources at Hopewell Furnace, was also honored with six additional awards, including a Gold Medal by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, a PHS Gold Medal Award, a Special Achievement Award of the Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Landscape and Nurseryman’s Association Trophy, the Philadelphia Unit of the Herb Society of America Award and a PHS Sustainability Award.
Ambler Campus Gets Ready for EarthFest 2016
Earthfest
 
There is nothing quite like Earth Day at Ambler Campus. Where else will you find 6,000 students and teachers from five counties gathered together to learn about protecting and preserving the environment and sustaining our communities? Now in its 14th year, EarthFest 2016 will be held on Friday, April 22, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., rain or shine. This event is impossible without a dedicated army of volunteers. We hope you’ll join us! Contact the volunteer coordinators at earthfest@temple.edu for more information or to join the team!
Division of Architecture and Environmental Design
Formed in Tyler School of Art
Architecture
 
There are essential commonalities between Temple’s departments of Architecture, Planning and Community Development, and Landscape Architecture and Horticulture as well as the Center for Sustainable Communities. Recognizing the important connections between these units, the Temple University Board of Trustees approved the transition of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture and the Department of Planning and Community Development to the Tyler School of the Art where they join with the Department of Architecture and the Center for Sustainable Communities in the newly formed Division of Architecture and Environmental Design.
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Stoney Bank Nurseries
 
Ambler Alumni Win Best in Show at the 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show
It was definitely a good year for Temple University Ambler students, past and present, at the 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show. While the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture racked up seven awards, Stoney Bank Nurseries won Best in Show for the seventh time! Stoney Bank founder Jack Blandy and his son J. Joseph Blandy are both esteemed Temple graduates. During their 37th year at the Flower Show this year, they were also honored with a Gold Medal Award and the PLNA Trophy for showing the most effective use of plants and best use of design in the Landscape category.
New Access to the Ambler Arboretum
A special thank you to the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust and the Schiel Family Trust for their generous donations to install and complete a new fully accessible pathway in the Ambler Arboretum. The path will be installed by late summer to connect Albright Walk across the parterres of the Louise Bush-Brown Formal Perennial Garden, the Albright Winter Garden and the stairs of the Viola Anders Herb Garden.
Help Our Students Make an Impact
You can make a difference for students enrolled in our academic programs at Temple University Ambler with a charitable gift. Your gift can have an immediate effect if directed to support improvement projects within the Ambler Arboretum—a living laboratory for students at Ambler—or designated to the Landscape Architecture Junior Studio’s annual Philadelphia Flower Show exhibit. Consider making a legacy gift to establish a named scholarship, which will ensure that students will benefit from your generosity for years to come. For more information, contact Linda Lowe at linda.lowe@temple.edu or (267) 468-8440.
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