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TCLF in the News

May 21, 2013
In Praise of Civic Horticulture
Plan Philly

As University of Pennsylvania professor David Brownlee set the stage for last Friday's Civic Horticulture Conference, jointly presented by The Cultural Landscape Foundation and the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society, audience members couldn't help but appreciate our city's rich heritage in bringing green landscapes to the urban mix.

May 20, 2013
Cultural Landscape Foundation Adds Landscape Architect Joseph Yamada to Its New Pioneers Oral History Profiles
Landscape Online

“Joe Yamada is a landscape architect of great depth, nuance and finesse. This oral history will help introduce his considerable career and body of work to a wider audience." —Charles Birnbaum, founder and president of The Cultural Landscape Foundation

May 15, 2013
Gardening the City
The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia is living through a golden age of park-building and landscape improvements.

May 8, 2013
Gathering to Showcase Civic Horticulture
Plan Philly

In Sept. of 2011, Charles Birnbaum, founder and president of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), penned a love letter — via his Huffington Post column, City Shaping — to Philadelphia's past and current public greening efforts.

May 7, 2013
Philadelphia to Host to Civic Horticulture Conference
Grid Magazine

This May, Philadelphia will play host to the Civic Horticulture Conference, a national symposium of scholars and practitioners in the fields of landscape architecture, green economics and urban design.

May 3, 2013
An Oral History of Joe Yamada
San Diego City Beat

Many people might not know the name Joseph Yamada, but San Diegans definitely know his work.

April 30, 2013
Garden goings-on: what's happening in May
Newsworks

May is considered the most beautiful month for Philadelphia gardens, and it's no surprise that it's also the most popular month for horticultural events of every kind.

April 19, 2013
Golden Gate National Parks Get Their Due
A/N Blog

One of the jewels of the San Francisco Bay Area, the Golden Gate National Parks (including their new visitors centers), last week received the Stewardship Excellence Award from The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF).

April 16, 2013
Fern Dell water shut-off a mystery
Los Angeles Times

Of the many indignities visited upon Fern Dell, the garden oasis in Griffith Park, one remains a mystery: Who turned off the water?

April 16, 2013
Restoration Underway For Griffith Park's 1920s-Era Fern Dell Tourist Attraction
Curbed Los Angeles

It's fallen on hard times, but for decades, the Fern Dell garden in Griffith Park (by the Trails restaurant) was a major attraction: "Starlets and health-seekers lined up in the 1920s to fill jugs from the spring that fed this 20-acre fantasia of ferns, footpaths and picturesque bridges. They thought it was a fountain of youth," as the LA Times puts it.