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Bartram’s Garden is now an Art-Reach Partner
This season, we’re proud to say that Bartram’s Garden has become an official partner of Art-Reach. This incredible local organization works to remove barriers to art, science, and cultural institutions…
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Growing Out: Supporting Community Gardens
As we approach the end of another growing season, we wanted to highlight one of our new partnerships at the Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden. This year, we worked…
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Congratulations to Aniya for her Prize-Winning Pie!
Congratulations to Aniya, whose sweet potato pie won the first annual Pie Off at this year’s Handmade Holidays event!
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My backyard is Bartram’s Garden!
By Staci Vernick These words may be Bartram’s latest marketing slogan, popping up on lawn signs all over Philadelphia, but their meaning is anything but new. Growing the garden as…
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In case you missed our Moth Party!
On Friday the 13th 2018 Bartram’s held a moth observation party at the garden. We hung a sheet on a line between two Chestnut Oaks in the lower garden and…
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William Bartram’s Travels and the Early Naturalist’s Library
William Bartram’s reputation as a botanist, naturalist, and explorer has endured in the modern world largely due to his single, classic book: Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East &…
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Our special issue of the SW Globe Times is here!
Extra extra! Read all about it! Our special issue of the SW Globe Times – a two-month collaboration with Bartram’s Garden and the SW CDC – has hit the streets…
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Spring Plant Sale List 2018
Join us on Saturday, April 21 at 10 AM for our annual Spring Plant Sale and Open House. The sale hours will be from 10 am to 4 pm. Bartram’s…
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Found in the Floorboards: 200 Year Old Seed Packets
Did you know that William Hamilton of The Woodlands and William Bartram of Bartram’s Garden were contemporaries and friends? The two shared a love of plant collecting and botany, were…
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