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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December 1: ​ Holiday Luncheon at Hershey Country Club. The highlight of our annual holiday  luncheon will be a special presentation by the very talented Maria Yi of Maria’s Flowers. She will introduce us to Korean Homeland Style flower arranging. Lucky attendees will go home with an arrangement. Email us if you would like to attend. 

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Certified arborist Brian Chase from Bartlett Tree Experts taught us a lot about tree care and tree diseases. Contact him at bchase@bartlett.com or go to bartlett.com.

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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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Enjoy these fall photos taken by a talented member, at her home and at Longwood Gardens. ​​