POP High Tunnel Update 2025
Citrus, olives, and bananas in Philadelphia?! Sounds pretty wild, yet this is something the Philadelphia Orchard Project is experimenting with as part of a project… Read More
Category Archives: Plant Profiles
PLOW Native Perennial Herb Row update!
The native herb row resides next to our stone fruit row. Left photo all green understory waking up in May. Right photo Monarda and Echinacea… Read More
Tooth of the Lion: A Spring Perennial
“Bees celebrated return of dandelions in a skirt of twirling, yellow bliss Flowering bouffant mirrored my spiky little afro Jagged edged “lion’s tooth” leaves paid… Read More
Plants of the POP Learning Orchard: Herbaceous Nitrogen Fixers
HELPFUL ALLIES IN THE ORCHARD NITROGEN FIXATION The importance of nitrogen in the soil cannot be stressed enough. It is essential for all life forms,… Read More
PLANT SPOTLIGHT: Peeling Back The Hardy Banana
Finding Musaceae: A Small Odyssey i. It’s March of 2019, and a friend brings me to work with them for a few hours at the Fairmount… Read More
Plant Spotlight: HOPPIN’ OVER TO HOPS
THE STORY BEHIND AMERICAN HOPS OVERVIEW Did you know that hops, the flavoring agent found in beer, grows on a vine? And that it is… Read More
Plants of the POP Learning Orchard: Native Herb Row
MEDICINAL AND CULINARY NATIVE HERBS IN THE LEARNING ORCHARD AT THE WOODLANDS Scarlet Bee Balm, monarda didyma, in the new herb row at the Woodlands… Read More
Plants of the POP Learning Orchard: Nitrogen Fixing Shrubs
HELPFUL ALLIES IN THE ORCHARD NITROGEN FIXATION The importance of nitrogen in the soil cannot be stressed enough. It is essential for all life forms,… Read More
Plants of the POP Learning Orchard: Paw Paw Cultivars
Did you know that there a growing number of cultivated varieties of Paws Paws? Often thought of only as a wild, foraged fruit, for decades… Read More