United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County -- Wyndmoor
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a worksheet and site plan.
Varying Form:
W. Beaumont Whitney, II Garden formerly known as.
General:
This one-acre garden, complementing a Georgian house, includes several "rooms." There is an herb and vegetable garden of formal design enclosed by fencing. An allee features pleached trees. A perennial area is designed to be viewed from the terrace adjacent to the "public rooms" of the house.
Garden was featured on the tours of the 1963 GCA Annual meeting in Philadelphia. At that time, the walled garden included plantings evergreen and clematis mingled on the walls, formal espaliered pyracanthus and ilex, an allee of flowering crabs, underplanted with vinra and azaleas. The 'cool wild garden' led to a play yard and compost pile and behind a clipped hedge was a cutting garden. Foundation plantings were designed by Frederick Peck.
Persons associated with the garden include: Whitney W. Beaumont, II (former owner, 1960s), Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield (former owner, 1970s-2004), Frederick W. Peck (landscape architect, 1960s), and George Robbins (architect, 1949).
Related Materials:
Sheffield Garden related holdings consist of 2 folders (15 35 mm. slides)
Collection Restrictions:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
