{"id":131180,"date":"2026-03-06T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131180\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:30:08","slug":"philadelphia-flower-show-promotes-sustainable-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131180\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flower Show promotes sustainable gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jones advises gardeners to water early in the morning, use shade cloths or even install beach umbrellas over vegetable gardens. Landowners can also consider large plants like sunflowers to create shaded areas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy peppers were burning. They were getting sun-skulled,\u201d Jones said, recalling the extreme July heat in her home state of Maryland. \u201cPeppers are a plant that loves hot weather \u2014 but it\u2019s too hot. So, I was putting umbrellas over them to shade them.\u201d<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-733880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/03-05-2026-k-paynter-sustainable-gardening-flower-show-2.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow yarrow\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>Yellow yarrow, a native plant, on display at Temple University\u2019s exhibit at the 2026 Philadelphia Flower Show (Kimberly Paynter\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n<p>She encourages gardeners to research which plants are more likely to thrive in certain conditions, and understand which species work in tandem. The phrase \u201cright plant, right place\u201d may be an overused meme, Jones said, but the concept is crucial when adapting to <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/whyy-news-climate-desk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>There is a silver lining to the effects of a warming planet, she said, as gardeners are growing plants they wouldn\u2019t have dreamed of planting a decade ago.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not all bad news. It\u2019s about actionable things that you can do to mitigate this. You just have to learn how to garden a bit differently,\u201d she said. \u201cBe a nimble and adaptable gardener.\u201d<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-733881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/03-05-2026-k-paynter-sustainable-gardening-flower-show-3.jpg\" alt=\"plants on display at Temple University\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>Rosemary, sweet potatoes and a fig tree on display as part of Temple University\u2019s exhibit at the 2026 Philadelphia Flower Show (Kimberly Paynter\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Flower Show also promoted the importance of planting native species as the region faces habitat loss, which reduces the number of birds and insects that visit gardens. Invasive species like burning bush have choked out native plants in the area, and don\u2019t support pollinators.\n<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Bunting, the society\u2019s vice president of horticulture, encourages gardeners to buy pollinator plants and native shrubs that improve biodiversity and to reduce their lawn area as much as possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>He advises people to plant mountain mint, which grows quickly and has an abundance of pollinators, or butterfly milkweed to attract monarch butterflies, which are facing population declines.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-733883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/03-05-2026-k-paynter-sustainable-gardening-flower-show.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Bunting smiles\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>Andrew Bunting, vice president of horticulture at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, with a native juniper tree the PHS Gold Medal Plants exhibit at the 2026 Philadelphia Flower Show (Kimberly Paynter\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n<p>Bunting also said using electric mowers instead of gas, and avoiding pesticides, can also make a big difference on the environment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf every homeowner just did one thing, collectively, that would have a positive impact on the environment,\u201d he said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jones advises gardeners to water early in the morning, use shade cloths or even install beach umbrellas over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25466,69,71,70,60908,5206],"class_list":["post-131180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gardening","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sustainable-farming","tag-whyy-news-climate-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}