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A Brief History of Borshch

Creator:
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this
Type:
Blog posts
Smithsonian staff publications
Blog posts
Published Date:
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:54:00 GMT
Topic:
Cultural property  Search this
See more posts:
Festival Blog
Data Source:
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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edanmdm:posts_8a6457e3e2b44d772eece97ab0fd7094

Spiritual Connections through Corn: Chef Rafael Rios’s Farm-to-Food-Truck Cooking

Creator:
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this
Type:
Blog posts
Smithsonian staff publications
Interviews
Blog posts
Published Date:
Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:41:00 GMT
Topic:
Cultural property  Search this
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Sewickley -- Macchione Italian Garden

Former owner:
Schmitt Family  Search this
Brown family  Search this
Floro, Rosario and Concetta  Search this
Flora, Frank and Dominica  Search this
Macchione, Giovanni  Search this
Macchione, Maria  Search this
Provenance:
Village Garden Club of Sewickley  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
Macchione Italian Garden (Sewickley, Pennsylvania)
United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Allegheny County -- Sewickley
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, photocopies of articles, a calendar, a planting list, historical information about the Italian community, and 28 photographic prints of horticultural details.
General:
The Macchione Italian Garden is a working family garden in which the four-tenths of an acre lot is planted with vegetables, herbs, and fruits that produce food for this extended family, following traditional practices. Some of these practices include collecting rainwater from the roofs of the house and garage in two large cisterns, growing bamboo in a corner next to the garage that is used for bean and tomato supports, using old pipes to build a grape arbor, and using plant material such as garlic leaves to tie up vines. Flowers are grown for beauty alongside vegetables and herbs as foundation plantings around the white clapboard house but there are few ornamental trees or shrubs. The working trees include Chinese chestnut and fruit: apple, apricot, cherry, fig, peach, pear, persimmon and plum, which, in addition to the grapes grown on the arbor, will be preserved or made into wine.
There are two large vegetable gardens enriched with compost in which the crops are rotated and planted in succession to maximize production. In May lettuce and broccoli are planted in alternating rows so the lettuce will be shaded as the weather gets warmer; other early season crops included garlic, onions and strawberries grown in pots. In summer the crops include zucchini, many kinds of peppers, cabbages, beans, eggplant and tomatoes. Rapini is planted in the fall while the seeds of the summer vegetables are saved for the next year. A white fig tree is pushed over into a trench each year and covered with boards and leaves so it will survive the winter weather. Chickens are kept in a coop next to the garage and their diet of corn is supplemented with harvested vegetable stalks.
The Macchione Italian Garden is featured in www.theitaliangardenproject.com and participated in a tour of Italian gardens in 2010.
Persons associated with the garden include: Schmitt family (former owners, 1910-1923); Brown family (former owners, 1923-1965); Rosario and Concetta Floro (former owners, 1965-1993); Frank and Dominica Flora (former owners, 1993-1999); Giovanni and Maria Macchione (former owners, 1999- ).
Related Materials:
Macchione Italian Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (37 digital images; 29 photographic prints)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Sewickley  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File PA729
See more items in:
The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Pennsylvania
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6297cf97f-b986-497a-920e-cea59eb2a50d
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref16576

Warsaw -- Sabine Hall

Former owner:
Carter, Robert Wormley, ca. 1735-1797  Search this
Wellford, Armistead Nelson  Search this
Wellford, Dabney S. Rev  Search this
Wellford, Hill B.  Search this
Carter, Landon, 1710-1778  Search this
Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806  Search this
Carter, Winifred, ca.1740  Search this
Wellford, Robert, 1775-1844  Search this
Wellford, Ida  Search this
Wellford, William  Search this
Wellford, Katherine Davis  Search this
Carter, Katherine  Search this
Carter, Elizabeth Merrie  Search this
Carter, Landon, II  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
Sabine Hall (Warsaw, Virginia)
United States of America -- Virginia -- Richmond County -- Warsaw
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets and photocopies from publications.
General:
Sabine Hall is a plantation residence in the Georgian style built by Robert "King" Carter for his son Colonel Landon Carter, circa 1730, on a property of 4,000 acres, in an axial plan with formal parterre gardens. Sabine Hall was named for Horace's Roman villa and passed down through the Carter family for nine generations. The family kept the original geometric plan intact, although not all the beds were planted over time. Facing the Rappahannock River, and encompassing several hundred feet are six terraced beds with connecting grass ramps, with a centered gravel walk nearly six feet wide leading from the porch steps into the first terrace. Gravel walks continued to at least the second and third terraces. The first terrace, planted in grass, was called a bowling green. There were formal flower beds planted in a symmetrical English style on the second terrace. The third terrace was likely planted in small fruits and medicinal herbs, the fourth and fifth terraces planted in vegetables, and the sixth with fruit trees. There was another vegetable garden (the kitchen garden) planted with necessities that did not conform to the aesthetics of the parterres, planted beyond the boxwood hedges, out of sight from the house. The fifth and sixth terraces were not maintained into the 20th century, but the outlines remain. The borders were hedged in boxwood. The front portico of the house has leads to a planted lawn surrounded and interplanted with both native and imported tree species.
Colonel Landon Carter is presumed to have been responsible for the initial geometrical design of the garden, based on 17th century English and Continental precepts. Indentured English gardeners may have been early workers, as well as slaves passed down through family bequests. The third owner, Robert Wormeley Carter, named slave gardeners in his will of 1794.
Flowers mentioned by Landon Carter include bulbs, roses, and wildflowers. Vegetables included artichokes, French beans, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, endives, lettuce, melons, mushrooms, onions, parsley, peas, potatoes, radishes, savoys, spinach, and turnips.
Following ownership by Colonel Landon Carter (1710-1778) and his wife Elizabeth Wormeley of Rosegill, the estate passed to Robert Wormeley Carter and his wife Winifred Beale; then to their son Colonel Landon Carter II and his wife Katharine Tayloe of Mount Airy; next to Robert Wormeley Carter II and his wife Elizabeth Merrie Tayloe of Mount Airy. Ownership then skipped a generation and went to Robert Carter Wellford (a grandson) in 1861, who married Elizabeth Harrison of Berkeley. She died in 1919, leaving Sabine Hall to two sons, Armistead Nelson Wellford and his wife Katherine Davis and William Harrison Wellford and his wife Ida Beverly. The property was passed on to ensuing sons, the Reverend Dabney S. Wellford and Hill B. Wellford.
Persons associated with the garden include the Carter family (1730) and their descendents.
Related Materials:
Sabine Hall related holdings consist of 1 folder (12 35 mm. slides (photographs))
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Virginia -- Warsaw  Search this
Plantations  Search this
Gardens, English  Search this
Vegetable gardening  Search this
Parterres  Search this
Terraces  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File VA009
See more items in:
The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Virginia
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6978b12aa-84e7-4a13-abe2-452ff77d35dd
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref18924

Haverford -- Winterberry Garden

Photographer:
Harris, Lawrie  Search this
Owner:
Wilmerding, Peter  Search this
Wilmerding, Susan  Search this
Sculptor:
Mitchel, Henry  Search this
Provenance:
The Garden Club of Philadelphia  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Digital images
Place:
United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia County -- Philadelphia
Winterberry Garden (Haverford, Pennsylvania)
Scope and Contents:
25 digital images (2022) and 1 file folder.
General:
This suburban garden on 8/10 of an acre was designed to be multipurpose for family, dogs and entertaining. Its features include a swimming pool and seating area, a 15 by 13 feet greenhouse attached to the house, a partially sheltered terrace used for outdoor dining and entertaining, a generous perennial border with seasonal bloom, and a fenced off working area with vegetable and herb gardens and a shed and woodpile. The stone and siding house is 1950's Pennsylvania farmhouse revival style with a circular driveway, with an extension added in 1980. The front garden is planted with winterberries (Ilex verticillate) and an espaliered magnolia. Entered through a picket fence the pool garden alongside the house has native shrubs and ground covers, with arborvitae planted for privacy from the neighbor's driveway. The greenhouse, which faces the pool, is filled with hanging baskets and containers in winter. A wrought iron arch with clematis and roses is passed under to reach the rear of the house where there is a terrace and another paved seating area. In summer there are hanging baskets of fuchsias and begonias and large planters filled with annuals.

The 10 by 50 feet wrap around perennial border, which can be viewed from the terrace and from the kitchen is planted with tulips, aquilegia, nepeta, day lilies and astilbe for May-June bloom. For September-November the border is filled with chrysanthemum, nicotiana and anemones. Separated by another picket fence the working garden has a lawn originally for dog control. An 8-foot high mesh panel on one side has been effective for deer control as it blocks their entrance point. Vegetables grown include asparagus, lettuce, beans, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant and onions with space for a flower cutting garden. Smaller pot plants either sit on rolling wooden steps next to the tool house or in a decorative iron support affixed to a side of the house.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Philadelphia -- Montgomery -- Haverford  Search this
Genre/Form:
Digital images
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File PA535
See more items in:
The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Pennsylvania
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6ec9c84d0-330b-449c-a3a3-58731df58e21
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33295

[Ilona's Garden]: vegetable garden accessorized by rustic wood arch with climbing rose "William Baffin," and a pyramid supporting thunbergia. Purple hyacinth, beans morning glory, honeysuckle and cucumber grow nearby. Fennel, bright light swiss chard, ...

Photographer:
Orthofer, H. S .  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Extent:
1 Slides (photographs) (col., 35 mm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Place:
Ilona's Garden (Williamstown, Massachusetts)
United States of America -- Massachusetts -- Berkshire County -- Williamstown
Date:
2008 Jun.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Massachusetts -- Williamstown  Search this
Morning glories  Search this
Arches  Search this
Honeysuckles  Search this
Plant supports  Search this
Vegetable gardening  Search this
Roses  Search this
Hyacinths  Search this
Genre/Form:
Slides (photographs)
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, Item MA084017
See more items in:
The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Massachusetts / MA084: Williamstown -- Ilona's Garden
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6639c84b7-1f8d-4a64-bf24-8bb00d4f4015
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref18727

Cambridge -- Morse School Garden

Creator:
Metropolitan District Commission  Search this
Hirschi, Jane  Search this
Beggy, Patricia  Search this
Architect:
Koch, Carl  Search this
Renovation architect:
Design Partnership of Cambridge  Search this
Artist:
Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001  Search this
Kepes, Juliet  Search this
Arai, Tomie  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Digital images
Place:
Morse School Garden (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
United States of America -- Massachusetts -- Middlesex County -- Cambridge
Scope and Contents:
1 folder and 25 digital images. The folder includes worksheets, photocopies of reference prints and other images.
General:
The Morse School is a Cambridge Modern style single-story modular structure with large windows and doors that open to the outdoors from individual classrooms, built in 1955. One-quarter acre of the schoolyard has gardens that are a major learning facility for the elementary school's students, and a resource for the neighborhood. The entry garden has a gravel path bordered on one side with raspberry bushes, with annual tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and cucumbers on the other side, and an open bed for digging dirt. A painted arbor opens to the main garden which features an alphabet garden along a chain link fence. Each year students plants annual flowers and vegetables for each letter, such as asters for "A" and zinnias for "Z". A pollinator garden attracts butterflies, other pollinating insects and birds with milkweed, Shasta daisies, geraniums, catmint, phlox, and grapevines growing on two trellises against the wall of the building. About ten beds of various sizes and shapes in the center of the main garden grow seasonal vegetables, beginning with leafy green vegetables, moving on to root crops such as carrots, potatoes and beets, followed by corn and peas and beans on a string trellis. There are two herb beds, more beds with strawberries, onions, sunflowers, cabbage, zucchini, chard, watermelon, and a companion planting of marigolds. Annual flowers are grown in two small whiskey barrels.
Other facilities include compost bins for food scraps and garden thinnings and a vibrantly painted shed for storing tools and supplies. A grassy gathering area has two fruit trees including an apple tree planted in the 1950's, and a large sycamore tree with six tree stumps nearby, seating for teaching, discussion, reading, singing and playing music. The community holds a Garden Expo in August and a cider pressing in October in the grassy gathering area. Age-appropriate curricula uses the gardens to teach urban children where food comes from, the life-cycle of growing plants, introductory botany and genetics. Other subject areas including art, math, food preparation and healthy eating derive from the students' gardening experiences.
CitySprouts, a local non-profit organization, partners with Morse School and provides workers, tools and garden supplies. CitySprouts has a plant list it recommends for garden-based learning along with suggestions for environmental subjects. Morse School had an empty front yard that was dug up and planted with red, white and blue spring bulbs in the shape of an American flag following September 11, 2001. The learning garden was developed afterwards.
Persons associated with the garden include Metropolitan District Commission (playground, Victory Garden, 1953- ); City of Cambridge (Morse School, 1953- ); Carl Koch (1912-1998) (architect, 1955); Design Partnership of Cambridge (renovation architects, 1999); Jane Hirschi, Director of City Sprouts (non-profit assisting in creating and maintaining school garden, 2001- ); Patricia Beggy (Morse school principal, 2004- ); Juliet and György Kepes (enamel panels artists, 1957); Tomie Arai (silk-screened mural artist, 1999).
Related Materials:
Additional materials also located in CitySprouts, 678 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge  Search this
Genre/Form:
Digital images
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File MA638
See more items in:
The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Massachusetts
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb61d0410ed-1591-4343-a5f3-be06c9c5bc05
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref32668

Laurel -- Harlow Garden

Provenance:
Laurel Garden Club  Search this
Owner:
Harlow, Eugene  Search this
Harlow, Jan  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
United States of America -- Mississippi -- Jones -- Laurel
Harlow Garden (Laurel, Mississippi)
Scope and Contents:
18 digital images (2013) and 1 file folder.
General:
This property is featured many times in Southern Living magazine: "Right Out Back" by Rebecca Bull Read, March 2009, and in 2010, April 2013 and 2015 photograph; Southern Living Everyday Gardening: Smart Design*Simple Landscape ideas*Best Plants and Flowers by Editors of Southern Living Magazine, published by Paperback Oxmoor, March 1, 2011; "Local Garden Club Meets to Help Beautify Community", published in The Chronicle, April 17, 2012.
The Harlow Garden was started in 1994 by building a 6.5 by 16 foot raised bed in a sunny location on their three and one-half acre property. The soil was amended with peat moss, aged chicken manure, and local rich dirt and planted for three seasons of vegetables: lettuces, peas and cole crops in spring, summer tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and squash, and fall greens and more cole crops. In succeeding years additional raised beds were built and flowers and herbs as well as more varieties of vegetables were planted. The beds are edged in treated pine or Arkansas field stone and the entire plot is fenced in post and whitewashed planks with hog wire at ground level to keep the dogs out. There are two decorative scarecrows, and outside the fence a perennial flower bed with a birdbath, a rose garden planted with hybrid teas, and a greenhouse for starting seeds.

The garden is tended year round and continues to provide food in the warm climate. There are two compost bins, with spent plants loaded into one, processed, and the compost turned out of the other bin twice each year to improve the soil. In addition to vegetables within the fenced garden there are several varieties of sunflowers, a short bed dedicated to herbs, a clump of lemon grass for texture and visual interest, and zinnias, marigolds and nasturtium for more color. The vegetable assortment has increased to include cucumbers and French beans on supports, rhubarb and Swiss chard, beets, onions and garlic.

Persons associated with the garden include: Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Boyd (former owners, 1936- ); First Baptist Church (former owner, dates unknown); Dr. Phil Nelson (former owner, dates unknown); Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Nichols (former owners, -1994); Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Harlow (owners, 1994- ).
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Mississippi -- Laurel  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File MS073
See more items in:
The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Mississippi
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb68f0587f3-6dee-4f8f-a43f-bf7f39604b0f
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref32871

[Harlow Garden]: Spring garden with lettuce, chard, chives, onions and broccoli.

Photographer:
Herring, Debbie  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Extent:
1 Digital image (color, TIFF file. )
Type:
Archival materials
Digital images
Place:
Harlow Garden (Laurel, Mississippi)
United States of America -- Mississippi -- Jones County -- Laurel
Date:
2013 May 4
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Mississippi -- Laurel  Search this
Vegetable gardening  Search this
Rose gardens  Search this
Greenhouses  Search this
Plant supports  Search this
Genre/Form:
Digital images
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, Item MS073007
See more items in:
The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Mississippi / MS073: Laurel -- Harlow Garden
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6e2ee63a1-3866-423d-b80e-fb1ddb73f9ea
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33033

Honolulu -- Hee Family Garden

Photographer:
George, Jan M.  Search this
Landscape architect:
Hubbard, James C.  Search this
Mechler, Stephen F.  Search this
Provenance:
The Garden Club of Honolulu  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
United States of America -- Hawaii -- Honolulu County -- Honolulu
Hee Family Garden (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Scope and Contents:
13 digital images (2022) and 1 file folder
General:
This property had a house built in 1940 and an overgrown garden of tropical plants, especially invasive strawberry guava trees when the current owners acquired it in 1970. In 1990 landscape architect James C. Hubbard created a half-acre back garden, removing the invasives and planting a fresh tropical garden. His design used swathes of grass to open up views of Ko' olau Mountains and the neighboring protected forest's bamboo and tropical trees including kukui or candlenut, employing the Japanese concept shakkei, or the art of borrowed scenery. In 2015 the owners built a contemporary style house for their multigenerational family that is sprawling and tiered and hugs the mountainside. They needed a new garden for the new house that would reflect their Asian heritage and Hawaiian location, designed by landscape architect Stephen F. Mechler.

The garden's gathering place is a large, covered patio with a lava rock wall. The plant colors are mainly green, white and blue from swathes of agapanthus and hydrangea from the earlier garden, and green and white in the front garden. There is a 70-year-old avocado tree from the original garden, an inherited lychee, Meyer lemon, vegetable and herb gardens in raised boxes to protect them from snails and slugs, and two varieties of taro that are protected from wild boar. Vegetables include green onion and beets; herbs include rosemary and basil. As the area receives 107 inches of rain each year the family does not irrigate nor do they use any synthetic chemicals in their gardens.

Generations of family are respected throughout the garden, exemplified by the lychee and inherited gray bricks that border a small Zen garden. Accessories include antique Chinese ceramic pots once used for wine and thousand- year Chinese eggs, now planted with orchid and lotus. A teardrop shaped patch of mondo grass represents and modernizes the Zen garden, usually comprised of stone. Hawaiian plants include native gingers, stumps from other gardens, and so-called canoe plants – species brought to the islands by early settlers. Seeds and cuttings from family, friends and other native island plants replace the invasives that once dominated the property.

Persons associated with the garden's design: James C. Hubbard (1990), Stephen F. Mechler (2016)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Hawaii -- Honolulu  Search this
Tropical plants  Search this
Native plant gardens  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File HI061
See more items in:
The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Hawaii
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6d5d8b567-5631-48bc-bbf8-34a4277a398f
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33304

Hiawatha -- Minney's

Provenance:
Cedar Rapids Garden Club  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
Minney's (Hiawatha, Iowa)
United States of America -- Iowa -- Linn County -- Hiawatha
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, garden plans, and a recipe for "red pickles."
General:
Located in Hiawatha, Iowa, north of Cedar Rapids, Minney's is a traditional Iowa vegetable garden with some flowers. This type of garden was once very common across the state (Minney's has been under cultivation since 1956), but is no longer easy to find. The main vegetable garden is 90 x 55 feet. Plantings include green and yellow (wax) beans, snap and little marble peas, cabbage, peppers, eggplant, kohlrabi, garlic, onions, potatoes, beets, tomatoes, squash, sweet corn, cucumbers, and Peruvian lilies. There are also separate plantings of peonies and rhubarb, and occasional plantings of canteloupe and watermelon.
Related Materials:
Minney's related holdings consist of 1 folder (6 35 mm. slides (photographs))
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Iowa -- Hiawatha  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File IA019
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The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Iowa
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6abf56737-80a0-449d-8ecc-646647ca5769
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref6563

[Cottage-in-the Meadow Gardens]: vegetable garden.

Photographer:
Rettig, Lawrence L.  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Extent:
1 Slides (photographs) (col., 35 mm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Place:
Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens (South Amana, Iowa)
United States of America -- Iowa -- Iowa County -- South Amana
Date:
2003 Jul.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
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Topic:
Gardens -- Iowa -- South Amana  Search this
Garden borders  Search this
Lawns  Search this
Trees  Search this
Cabbage  Search this
Onions  Search this
Vegetable gardening  Search this
Arbors  Search this
Plant supports  Search this
Summer  Search this
Sunflowers  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, Item IA014006
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The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Iowa / IA014: South Amana -- Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens
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Archives of American Gardens
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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6521a9dce-6443-4e9c-a9d9-796b94b2522f
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ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref6685

[Cottage-in-the Meadow Gardens]: front of cottage with hanging onions.

Photographer:
Rettig, Lawrence L.  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Extent:
1 Slides (photographs) (col., 35 mm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Place:
Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens (South Amana, Iowa)
United States of America -- Iowa -- Iowa County -- South Amana
Date:
2003 Aug.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Iowa -- South Amana  Search this
Edging  Search this
Garden borders  Search this
Cannas  Search this
Beans  Search this
Onions  Search this
Houses -- brick  Search this
Fences  Search this
Climbing plants  Search this
Summer  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, Item IA014007
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The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Iowa / IA014: South Amana -- Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens
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Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb651d7a1e0-933f-4b17-a703-21a5c5813e1c
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref6686

[David Lenz House Garden]: raised beds, picket fence, and bake house with house in background.

Photographer:
Cochran, John D., Jr.  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Extent:
1 Slides (photographs) (col., 35 mm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Place:
David Lenz House Garden (New Harmony, Indiana)
United States of America -- Indiana -- Posey County -- New Harmony
Date:
2004 Aug.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Trees  Search this
Walkways, gravel  Search this
Fences -- wooden  Search this
Raised bed gardening  Search this
Cabbage  Search this
Gardens -- Indiana -- New Harmony  Search this
Vegetable gardening  Search this
Picket fences  Search this
Daylilies  Search this
Vegetables  Search this
Onions  Search this
Houses  Search this
Walkways, concrete  Search this
Outbuildings  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, Item IN039002
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The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Indiana / IN039: New Harmony -- David Lenz House Garden
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb66057d322-1454-4557-b71c-71759ee455ad
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref7432

Madison -- Pappa's Patch

Architect:
Eley, Jim  Search this
Landscape architect:
Griffin, Rick  Search this
Landscape designer:
Cliett, Hugh  Search this
Provenance:
The Garden Club of Jackson  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Digital images
Place:
United States of America -- Mississippi -- Madison County -- Madison
Scope and Contents:
1 folder, 40 digital images and 4 photographic prints. The folder includes worksheets and photocopies of garden tour guides.
General:
In 2008, bare ground surrounded a newly built Tuscan style house and outbuildings on a half-acre lot was developed into six garden rooms with connecting crushed limestone and slate walkways. A walled courtyard and a gothic door set in a yew hedge, antique stone artifacts embedded in walls and some artificial aging of new cast stone features contribute to its Old World ambience. Tall Leyland and Italian cypress in the formal front garden, boxwood hedges and topiary balls and perennial rye grass emphasize the verticality of the house and introduce the predominantly green and white color scheme. White flowers and leaves used in different garden rooms include crepe myrtle, caladium, snowball viburnum, limelight hydrangea, Queen Anne's lace, Confederate jasmine, and white rain lilies that were passed down in the family. Purple flowers and leaves used as accents include pansies, petunias, vitex, wandering Jew, purple clematis, foxglove and iris, while contrasting yellow flowers include rudbeckia, black-eyed Susan and daffodils as well as the leaves of creeping Jenny and some evergreens.
Four raised beds originally for flowers now are planted year-round with summer vegetables and flowers alternating with greens and onions in winter. Three beehives provide gallons of honey; fruit grows on a banana tree and espaliered lemon and tangerine. Herbs are grown in a bed under the kitchen window, and a leaf cutting bed provides material for the owner's floral designs. Water features include a koi plant and a wall fountain. Future planting plans include replacing ground cover with Lenten roses and an annual flower garden, a new rose bed, and a grape arbor. Statuary includes a contemporary Madonna in the garden room entered through the gothic gate. The landscape fulfills the owners' desire for character, stillness, movement, nature and the Divine.
In 2008, the garden won the 'Best New Garden of the Year for the State of Mississippi.' The garden was documented as an example of a Zero Lot Line for senior citizens. THe garden was also featured on the 2010 Spring Home and Garden Tour organized by The Garden Club of Jackson.
Persons associated with the garden include: James H. Eley (architect, 2006-2008); Rick Griffin of Griffin and Egger (landscape architect, 2007-2008); Hugh Cliett (landscape and stonework installation, 2007-2010); Emmanuel Littleton (gardener, 2007-2017); Jesus Nelra (gardener, 2012-2017).
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Mississippi -- Madison  Search this
Genre/Form:
Digital images
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File MS070
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The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Mississippi
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6c78ca6e5-3991-49ce-8154-d6381be3a721
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref9159

[Gardens of Maude and John Odgers]: the vegetable garden has companion planting, marigolds, and nasturtium, along with tomatoes, lettuces, kale, and onions.

Photographer:
Rierson, Nancy  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Extent:
1 Digital image (col., JPEG.)
Type:
Archival materials
Digital images
Place:
Gardens of Maude and John Odgers (Peterborough, New Hampshire)
United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Allegheny County -- Sewickley
Date:
2017 Aug.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- New Hampshire -- Peterborough  Search this
Potting sheds  Search this
Vegetable gardening  Search this
Walkways, gravel  Search this
Picket fences  Search this
Outbuildings  Search this
Genre/Form:
Digital images
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, Item NH116009
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The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / New Hampshire / NH116: Peterborough -- Gardens of Maude and John Odgers
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6e8cd4d8f-2c41-4836-87bb-94cf5e1482c9
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref9697

Artists and Writers

Collection Creator:
Blaine, Nell, 1922-1996  Search this
Container:
Box 1, Folder 12
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1980-1982
Collection Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Nell Blaine papers, 1879, 1940-1985. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Nell Blaine papers
Nell Blaine papers / Series 2: Correspondence
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97430796a-c937-414d-b642-ada00db4bc03
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-blainell-ref57
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Creator:
Smithsonian Channel  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
Uploaded:
2021-04-21T16:37:59.000Z
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Food on the Fly - STEM in 30 - Season 10 - Episode 1

Creator:
National Air and Space Museum  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
Uploaded:
2023-09-07T17:00:07.000Z
YouTube Category:
Education  Search this
Topic:
Aeronautics;Flight;Space Sciences  Search this
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Art Meets Science | Cultivating Learning

Creator:
Smithsonian Education  Search this
Type:
Lectures
YouTube Videos
Uploaded:
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Education  Search this
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