The Garden History & Design Committee is responsible for recording and cataloguing contemporary private gardens of exceptional importance and interest for the Smithonian’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 Committee is also responsible for keeping track of where records of local gardens are kept, if not at the Smithsonian, as some garden documents and images have been preserved elsewhere.
The Committee is also responsible for keeping track of where records of local gardens are kept, if not at the Smithsonian, as some garden documents and images have been preserved elsewhere.