Garden History and Design
The Garden History & Design Committee is responsible for recording and cataloging contemporary private gardens of exceptional importance and interest for the Smithsonian’s Archive of American Gardens, which makes those archives available to scholars and historians doing research. The Archive is intended to reflect both the history of and current trends in American landscape gardening, as well as exceptional examples thereof, and to preserve images and descriptions of those gardens for the future.
The Garden History & Design Committee is responsible for recording and cataloging contemporary private gardens of exceptional importance and interest for the Smithsonian’s Archive of American Gardens, which makes those archives available to scholars and historians doing research. The Archive is intended to reflect both the history of and current trends in American landscape gardening, as well as exceptional examples thereof, and to preserve images and descriptions of those gardens for the future.