Life
With Plants!
Upcoming Events
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November 29, 2025: Festival of Trees at Fort Hunter. The festival takes place over four weekends. Stop by to see our tree and make sure you get a raffle ticket! You could win a gorgeous decorated tree.
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January 5, 2026: New and Unusual Houseplants. Kathy Quarles of Stauffers of Kissel Hill will update us on the latest trends in houseplants. Be a lucky winner of a gift certificate to Stauffers!
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Maria Yi from Maria's Flowers delighted us at our annual luncheon.
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See our Programs and Events page for more programs upcoming in 2025 and 2026.
Contact us:
Hersheyhorticulturesociety@gmail.com
You can also use the chat button on the right.
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We are excited to introduce our scholarship winner, Emily Phillips. Here is a note from Emily:
Update: This summer, I got to serve as a Sustainable Landscape Maintenance Technician Intern at LandStudies in Manheim! Every day, we would travel around to floodplain restoration sites or native flower meadows to spray any invasive species there. I got to learn a lot of plant identification, and now I see invasive plants everywhere, which isn't much fun but is probably a good thing. I also got to meet a lot of people that worked in Environmental Science, and that was a really cool opportunity!
My classes are going well so far! We're one week into the fall semester, and I think I'm going to enjoy all of my classes. I'm taking Plant Taxonomy and Systematics, which is going to be a lot of plant identification and relationships. A lot of our labs are outside, which is a nice change from previous semesters.
Note for the group: Thank you all so much for allowing me to study Environmental Science at Messiah! All of my classes are challenging but rewarding, and I am so thankful to be able to continue my education and pursue a career in caring for the planet. I hope to be able to attend a meeting in the coming year to meet all of you! Thanks again for all that you do!
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