"Sowing the Seeds of Harmony through Nature"
PGC Bus/Field Trip Committee Chair Christine Gallina has arranged a trip to the New York Botanical Garden on June 4th. Details below.
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PGC Bus/Field Trip Committee Chair Christine Gallina arranged a trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show on March 6th. For 2025, the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show exhibits showcased imaginative designs and provide boundless inspiration. The theme, "Gardens of Tomorrow", showed new and creative gardening ideas for the future. Members, friends and others in our community enjoyed this fun and educational trip to the oldest and largest indoor horticultural event in the world!
Bus Trip Chair Christine Gallina arranged a fantastic trip for PGC members to Peace Tree Farm in Kintnersville, PA. After a personalized tour led by owner Lloyd Traven, the group met for lunch at an eatery in Hellertown.
Peace Tree Farm is a family-operated, USDA Certified Organic wholesale greenhouse company located in the countryside of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Owners, Lloyd and Candy Traven, work with growers and retailers across the country and provide business customers with plants that grow. The Farm production is wholesale to the trade only. Locally, they provide all the Wegman’s stores with live containers of fresh herbs.
The Travens want their business partners and the ultimate public consumer to be as enriched by the gardening and plant-keeping experience as they are every day. Peace Tree’s website to contains information about their trademark specialty lavender and hearty figs, their certified organic herbs & vegetables, and their curated ornamental collection.
On this tour, members learned how the biocontrol program is an industry-leading example of sustainable agriculture. The Travens are also starting to grow Spring trial sample plants of new introductions for some of the industry’s largest plant breeders and propagators. Peace Tree is one of the few remaining growers in the greater Philadelphia market who takes on the lost art of plant forcing for flowers to grace the Philadelphia Flower Show commercial exhibits.
