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Former owner:

Greer, Robert Popin  Search this

Greer, Robert, Robert Popin, Mrs.  Search this

Gardener:

Holmdahl, Otto  Search this

Ester, Oliver  Search this

Kenyon, John  Search this

Ohata, Ossie  Search this

Aselton, Don  Search this

Provenance:

Seattle Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Greer Garden (Seattle, Washington)

United States of America -- Washington -- King County -- Seattle

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes a worksheet, site plans, plant lists, and a photocopy of an article about the garden.

General:

This garden is composed of two parts: an upper garden and a lower garden. The lower garden is a Japanese garden enclosed by a high brick wall. A small stream framed with plants winds through the lawn in view of the house. It originates from a natural spring on the upper level, forming a waterfall as it fills the pool below. The pool is surrounded by a rockery planted with azaleas, dwarf Japanese maples, and pine trees. A Colorado spruce cascades over the waterfall. In the spring the upper level is a mass of blooming daffodils and narcissus bulbs. These give way later to flowering rhododendrons, azaleas, etc., which are planted in beds surrounding the lawn. On either side of the upper lawn are native trees and shrubs, such as elms and huckleberry. A pink dogwood and Prunus dominate this part of the garden in the fall.

Persons associated with the garden include: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Popin Greer (former owners, 1913-1954); Otto Holmdahl (landscape gardener, 1930); Oliver Ester (landscape gardener, 1950-1960); John Kenyon (landscape gardener, 1950-1960); Ossie Ohata (gardener, 1960-1990); and Don Asalton (gardener, 1993 to date).

Related Materials:

Greer Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (11 35 mm. slides)

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 -- Washington (State) -- Seattle  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File WA029

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Washington

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb65cab7909-5ca4-467b-92e5-b610dc758531

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref11421

Owner:

Reed, William G., Jr.  Search this

Reed, Victoria  Search this

Photographer:

Rosen, Jo Anne  Search this

Turner, Mary M.  Search this

Reed, William G., Jr.  Search this

Landscape architect:

Welch, Terry  Search this

Scott, Cameron  Search this

Provenance:

Seattle Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

United States of America -- Washington -- King County -- Seattle

Reed Garden - Shinka Suru (Seattle, Washington)

Scope and Contents:

11 digital images (2014-2016, 2022) and 1 folder (digital).

General:

The owners refer to their garden as "Japanese Fusion", meaning the application of Japanese landscape design principles on a property in the Pacific northwest. Their lakefront location and view of Mount Rainer provide two important Japanese garden elements, water and mountains. The property comprises just over one acre and is roughly rectangular with a "handle" to Lake Washington. The garden, first installed in 2009, is curvilinear surrounding the house with layers of colors and textures. The Japanese term Shinka Suru translates to unfolding which incorporates an empathic response to nature and location. This includes acknowledgment and expression of the seasons with a dwarf crab apple that berries in winter. Cloud pruning is another technique employed as a visual expression of the sky on earth. Structure is achieved through the selection and placement of stones and boulders which provide elevation, irregularity, texture, and viewing platforms.

Two other hardscape features are meaningful in this garden. A moon gate in a side garden separates two symbolically different planting schemes. One approaches the moon gate under a canopy of golden bamboo that feels protective and emerges in the "mountains and water" symbolized by moss covered boulders that lead to an arc of white birch. The other structure is an asymmetrical bridge over two ponds that leads to the front door with a hidden fountain adding the sound of water. Japanese millstones are giant steppingstones in grass. There are more than 200 different trees, shrubs, ferns, perennials and herbs in the design including 52 different varieties of rhododendrons and azaleas. The plant selection near the sandy shoreline is limited by the county but blueberries are allowed and are grown there. In 2013 a vegetable garden was installed in custom designed nonlinear Cor-ten steel raised beds that are visually impactful as well as practical.

Persons associated with the garden's design: Terry Welch, landscape architect (2008); Cameron Scott, landscape architect for update of vegetable garden (2013).

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 -- Washington (State) -- Seattle  Search this

Gardens, Japanese  Search this

Landscape gardening  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File WA065

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Washington

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6aaf1b542-abf7-46ec-848f-654356bf1328

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33316

Author:

Golden, James  Search this

Subject:

Federal Twist  Search this

Physical description:

240 pages color illustrations 26 cm

Type:

Pictorial works

Ouvrages illustrés

illustrations (layout features)

Illustrated works

Pictures

Images

Place:

New Jersey

Date:

2021

Topic:

Gardens--Design  Search this

Natural gardens  Search this

Landscape gardening  Search this

Jardins--Architecture  Search this

Jardins naturels  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1163321

Provenance:

Little Compton Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Read Garden (Little Compton, Rhode Island)

United States of America -- Rhode Island -- Newport County -- Little Compton

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes a worksheet, site plan, and plant list.

General:

The original gardens were designed to divide the chauffeur's cottage from the main house. One garden includes peonies, nepeta, iris, and penstemon in pink and blue shades. Another garden has yellow and white flowers, best in July. Once a lawn, the field is mowed annually in fall. A croquet lawn exists between the two houses.

Persons, organizations, and firms associated with the garden include: Edwin Wheeler Winter (former owner, 1904-1930); Virginia P. Purviance (garden designer, 1993-1996); Lloyd Lawton (garden designer, 1970); and Joyce Brousseau (landscape gardener, 2005- ).

Related Materials:

Read Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (14 35 mm. slides)

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 -- Rhode Island -- Little Compton  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File RI164

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Rhode Island

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6d269b3e6-7bc7-4836-a25f-e5a2f2e22b3a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref10540

Former owner:

James, Harriet Eddy  Search this

James, Arthur Curtiss  Search this

Gardener:

Greatorex, John  Search this

Rosarian:

Foote, Harriett Risley, 1863-  Search this

Contractor:

Peckham Brothers  Search this

Hempstead of Boston  Search this

Lantern slide maker:

Van Altena, Edward  Search this

Landscape architect:

Olmsted Brothers  Search this

Provenance:

Garden Club of New Haven  Search this

Creator:

Powell, Alan, M/Ms  Search this

Hamilton, Samuel, Mrs  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Beacon Hill (Newport, Rhode Island)

United States of America -- Rhode Island -- Newport County -- Newport

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes correspondence, articles and information sheet compiled by GCA representative.

Biographical / Historical:

After Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James's deaths, the gardens, with their pergolas, pools, and walls, fell into disrepair, ravaged by time and invasive trees and shrubs. The estate was subdivided into 3.25-acre parcels in the 1970s, and sold by developers as single home sites—with the remnants of the Blue Garden on one of the sites. Through the generosity of Dorrance H. Hamilton, a Newport summer resident, philanthropist, and garden enthusiast, the Blue Garden was rescued from its demise and rebuilt in 2014. A team, led by Parker Construction, Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architects, and Arleyn A. Levee, Olmsted Historian, restored the garden to its former glory, using as reference original Olmsted plans, drawings, photographs, and correspondence from the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, the Library of Congress, the Archives of American Gardens, and the Redwood Library, among other repositories. As the name suggests, the Blue Garden incorporates a palette of blues early in the season and transitions to lavender blues and purples, with touches of white, as the summer progresses. Over 250 evergreen trees and flowering shrubs enclose the garden, and contribute to its designation as an arboretum. The Blue Garden is known today as a classic example of American landscape art and a triumph of historic preservation. The garden is open for tours on Thursdays from mid-June through early October. Photographs of the restoration and information are available at thebluegarden.org.

General:

"There is an austere elegance about a green garden; pink or yellow or red are frivolous except as accents, but the garden that appeals to the romantic, universal soul is the blue garden. That is why the Blue Garden of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James was the ultimate goal of so many Newport Pilgrims. A very stately garden it is with the iridescent quality which blue flowers that really are mauve and purple and grayish, rather than true, sharp blue, impart. Its irregular symmetry makes it difficult to describe without a ground plan. At the two far distant ends are colonnades with gray rocks and irregular green plantations beyond, and the lower end is a circle of matchless turf whose boundary is rock and shrubs. The upper part is a circle, too, formed by a rustic lattice of slender split branches over which grow Clematis Jackmanii, mauve Sweet-peas and other charming creepers, backed by Cedars and Pines. In the center are two pools fed by water that trickles from beneath the colonnade."

"A thousand foot rose garden was blasted out of granite rock. A long grass allee originated by the reflecting pool, was planted with 5,000 roses of many varieties. The allee ascended several levels of stone walls and steps and climaxed under a high granite cliff, where a splendid stone and ironwork balustrade and imposing pergola were located. Mr. James died in 1942, all the roses were dug and sold and nature moved in to sow her seeds."

Persons associated with the property include: Arthur Curtiss James (former owner, 1909-1940); Olmsted Brothers (landscape architects); John Greatorex (superintendent of grounds and landscape gardener); Harriet R. Foote (garden designer and rosarian); Peckham Brothers (contractors for rose garden); Hempstead of Boston (landscape contractors/superintendent); Edward Van Altena (lantern slide maker).

Related Materials:

Beacon Hill, RI related holdings consist of 3 folders (5 hand colored glass lantern slides; 35 35mm slides (photographs); 5 8X10 glass plate negatives)

Records related to this site can be found at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Olmsted Job Number 03558, Arthur Curtiss James.

See others in:

Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection, 1900-1966. Perry Wheeler Collection, ca. 1880-1984. Richard Marchand historical postcard collection

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 -- Rhode Island -- Newport  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File RI035

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Rhode Island

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6c8ae0a2a-d3c7-4b67-9873-badab4bb3b2d

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref10568

Photographer:

Wiedenman, Charlotte  Search this

Garden designer:

Phelps, Claudia (Claudia Lea)  Search this

Provenance:

The Garden Club of Aiken (Aiken, South Carolina )  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Digital images

Slides (35mm transparencies)

Place:

Rose Hill Estate (Aiken, South Carolina)

United States of America – South Carolina – Aiken County – Aiken

Scope and Contents:

1 35mm slides (1942), 24 digital images (2023) and 2 file folders (one physical, one digital).

General:

Rose Hill was the estate of Sheffield and Claudia (nee Lea) Phelps. The 4.14 acre estate encompasses an entire city block at one of the highest points in Aiken, South Carolina. It was built as a winter retreat for the Phelps family of Teaneck, New Jersey on the site of an antebellum plantation that had burned. Aiken is situated in the western sand hills of South Carolina, a high sandy ridge situated across the midlands of the State. It is known for its sandy, rapidly draining soil and thus a lower annual humidity compared to other areas in South Carolina. The sandy soil also provides excellent footing for equestrian pursuits. Due to its favorable climate, Aiken became a health and sporting retreat in the late 1800s to early 1900s and thus a "Winter Colony" of wealthy Northerners was formed. Those that could afford a second home would build estates that were typical of the English Country aesthetic with pleasure grounds having both formal and woodland areas using native trees and shrubs as well as exotic ornamentals that looked as if they naturally belonged.

Mrs. Phelps designed her garden after the house was constructed in 1901. The front half of the property includes the home, the garden and a former tennis court; the back half was the working portion of the property with a large stable, dog kennel, carriage house and dependency cottages. Claudia Phelps was both a gardener and keen plant collector. She sourced plants from around the globe through familial connections, her travels abroad and through trade with fellow gardeners. Fruitlands Nursery in Augusta, Georgia, now the home of the Augusta National, was a local source for many of the plants at Rose Hill. Mrs. Phelps was a highly regarded Camellia japonica collector and Rose Hill has many old varieties that one does not typically see in the large retail garden centers. She produced a pamphlet on camellia cultivation and kept detailed lists of her collection. Her botanical book collection was donated to the Thomas Cooper Library of the University of South Carolina. Most notable in the collection were the rare books about camellias.

The garden demonstrates strong axes with hedges of cherry laurel and azaleas that line the garden paths. The pathways lead to water features and a summer tea cottage. Situated between the walkways are expanses of lawn that are dotted with ornamentals especially winter blooming plants like camellias and native azaleas. She made use of the iron cemented sandstone that is unique to the sand hills region. It is frequently found in old Aiken gardens. She used it to edge pathways and beds, to build seating areas, pediments, fountains, planters, and pond edging. The former tennis courts were converted by Mrs. Phelps first to a boxwood maze and then later to a lawn with a brick gazebo in the center. Legend recounts that the tennis court encouraged too much drinking and gambling so she converted the court into a garden area and placed a gazebo in the center.

In 1924, Mrs. Phelps invited 24 women to Rose Hill to form the Garden Club of Aiken, South Carolina's first garden club. In 1930, she would go on to help found the Garden Club of South Carolina and would be elected its first president and only lifetime president. She patterned many of the endeavors of the Garden Club of Aiken after those of the Garden Club of America.

The Rose Hill garden fell into considerable neglect in the late 1980s. Using garden notes from Mrs. Phelps' lead gardener, her great-granddaughter, Stephanie Wilds, was able to return the garden to much of its original layout. Today Rose Hill retains many relics that were described in the 1935 book, Carolina Gardens, by E.T.H. Shaffer. He remarks that Mrs. Phelps beautifully combines plants native to South Carolina, the Southeast and those from far off places. Mrs. Phelps died in 1955. Her daughter, Claudia Lea Phelps, also an active member of the Garden Club of Aiken and the Garden Club of South Carolina, lived at the property her entire life. She died in 1974. Rose Hill is a private property that has operated as an inn and events facility for the past twenty years.

Persons associated with the garden's design: Claudia Phelps (nee Lea) (plant collector, designer, gardener, 1898-1955); Claudia Lea Phelps (gardener, 1924-1974); Stephanie Wilds (gardener, 1991-2003).

Related Materials:

Home movies of the garden are located in the Phelps sisters collection, The University of South Carolina University Libraries in Columbia, South Carolina.

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 -- South Carolina -- Aiken  Search this

Private gardens  Search this

Landscape gardens  Search this

Formal gardens  Search this

Historic landscapes  Search this

Allées  Search this

Benches  Search this

Containers  Search this

Exedrae (site elements)  Search this

Fountains  Search this

Garden walks  Search this

Sculptures  Search this

Teahouses  Search this

Tennis courts  Search this

Terraces  Search this

Wall fountains  Search this

Pools  Search this

Genre/Form:

Digital images

Slides (35mm transparencies)

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File SC016

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / South Carolina

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6a0bd962f-9976-4567-a25f-1bfb413d6a6a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref12433

Former owner:

Huntington, Archer M., 1870-1955  Search this

Huntington, Anna Hyatt, 1876-1973  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Brookgreen Gardens (Murrells Inlet, South Carolina)

United States of America -- South Carolina -- Georgetown County -- Murrells Inlet

Scope and Contents:

The folders include worksheets, brochures incorporating a garden map, photocopies of correspondence, a fact sheet about the gardens, and other information.

General:

Founded by Archer M. and Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1931, Brookgreen Gardens is both a sculpture and landscape garden and a botanical preserve focusing on plants and animals of the Southeast. Located on the site of former indigo and rice plantations, Brookgreen encompasses over 9,000 acres and includes eight distinct habitat areas: beach and dunes, salt marshes, maritime forest, loblolly pine swamps, long-leaf pine ridges, river terrace, freshwater cypress-gum swamps, and abandoned rice fields. There are over 500 works of sculpture, making it the largest permanent outdoor exhibition of American sculpture in the world. Likewise, the botanical collection includes over 2,000 species and subspecies of plants native and adapted to the Southeast. Ponds and other bodies of water complement the more formal plantings which include several arboreta, a palmetto garden, a dogwood garden, and a magnolia allée. The gardens are open to the public.

Persons associated with the garden include: Archer M. and Anna Hyatt Huntington (former owners, 1930-1973).

Related Materials:

Brookgreen Gardens related holdings consist of 2 folders (34 35 mm. slides (photographs))

See others in:

Maida Babson Adams American Garden Collection, ca. 1960-1994.

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 -- South Carolina -- Murrells Inlet  Search this

Sculpture gardens -- South Carolina  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File SC063

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / South Carolina

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6b6e6a1c4-df99-436a-8526-d532a994f39e

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref12491

Architect:

Eyre, Wilson, 1858-1944  Search this

Landscape architect:

Eyre, Wilson, 1858-1944  Search this

Creator:

Highlands Historical Society  Search this

Former owner:

Sheaff Family  Search this

Roosevelt, Nicholas Guy, 1883?-1965  Search this

Roosevelt, Emily Wharton Sickler, 1884-1970  Search this

Sinkler, Caroline, 1860-1949  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

The Highlands (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania)

United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County -- Fort Washington

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes a worksheet, narrative history, copies of articles, Garden Club of America correspondence, and copy of "The Highlands Preservation Master Plan" by George E. Patton (December 1977).

General:

The Highlands lies on the old Skippack Pike in the White Marsh Valley. The English-style stone house was built by Anthony Morris in 1796. The Sheaff family developed the garden with two stone walls--one being crenelated. During Caroline S. Sinkler's ownership after 1915, the garden was renovated closely following the original existing features. Along both walls, there used to be lean-to greenhouses. These were removed by Sinkler and used to create a new wall. The plan of the garden had two axes that formed four separate gardens, one of them a parterre with a large sundial. Small pools, Italian sculptures, and garden ornaments were placed in the garden during Sinkler's time. Decay of the garden began after the death of Mrs. Roosevelt; subsequently the property was bequeathed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Persons and organizations associated with the garden include: Anthony Morris (former owner, 1796); George Sheaff (former owner); John Sheaff (former owner, ?-1915); Caroline Sinkler (former owner, 1917-1941); Nicholas G. and Emily Roosevelt (former owners, 1941-1957); Archie Coutts (gardener); Wilson A. Eyre (landscape architect, 1917); George Saylor (gardener); Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (owners, 1957-); and the Highlands Historical Society.

Related Materials:

The Highlands related holdings consist of 1 folder (5 glass lantern slides and 7 35 mm. slides)

See others in:

The Highlands, ca. 1930.

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 -- Fort Washington  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File PA008

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/kb691f7754a-ff9c-4dd3-aeb8-58101872598f

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref16467

Landscape architect:

Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Rocky Crest (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania)

United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County -- Gladwyne

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes a work sheet, site plans, and narrative history.

General:

Rocky Crest contains over fifteen acres that overlook Mill Creek. The lower 5.9 acres are known as the Alberta and Joseph Pew Memorial Preserve, protected in perpetuity under a conservation easement held by Natural Lands Trust. The upper 9.5 acres, also under an easement, contain the residence, carriage house, swimming pool, tennis courts, greenhouses, and gardens. The gardens were begun in 1905 by James S. Austin (1857-1919). Deeds at this time named the property "Rocky Crest." Austin used the name and applied it to a new, three-story, Colonial Revival stone estate that was built on the site by 1908. Existing features by Thomas Sears include a stone semicircular pool that leads to a raised rectangular garden; a stone terrace that serves as an overlook to the swimming pool and vista below; niche with fountain; integrated stone walls and steps; and small pools that feed into larger ones. In 1994, Christopher Masson replaced flagstone paving with block paving in the courtyard (later replaced by a gravel finish). Masson also designed a formal garden using a pattern of scalloped squares.

A large, gravel courtyard balances the front of this home. The courtyard leads through a wrought iron gate to a terrace from which to view formal garden beds enclosed by old stone walls. The double border sets off a pool house, which is graced by a trellised entry arch. To the left of the walled garden, the pool is fed by a Moorish-style waterway. The large brick and flagstone terrace behind the house boasts a box-edged parterre and oversees rolling lawn in the English landscape garden style.

Persons associated with the garden include: James S. Austin (former owner, 1905); Joseph N. and Alberta Pew, Jr. (former owners, 1919-1988); Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Burch (former owners, 1989-1994); Thomas W. Sears (landscape architect, 1934); and Christopher Masson (landscape architect, 1994).

Four Counties Garden Club facilitated the submission of this garden's documentation.

Related Materials:

Rocky Crest related holdings consist of 1 folder (3 35mm. slides)

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 -- Gladwyne  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File PA634

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/kb60166658d-7532-4fe2-ad47-28befea73c6b

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref16470

Landscape architect:

Farley, Alice Hamilton  Search this

Architect:

Farley, Richard J.  Search this

Provenance:

Wissahickon Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Digital images

Place:

St. Andrews (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia County -- Philadelphia

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes worksheets and a write-up of the property's history.

General:

In 1978 a landscape architect and architect began clearing their 2/3-acre lot, formerly part of a golf course that had gone to invasive weeds and weed trees. Four red oak, two American beech, a tulip and three green ash that remained were the start of their garden, along with bushels of daffodils and many dogwood planted to hold the sloping ground while the modern style house was built. The landscape style of the mostly shady garden includes hundreds of trees and shrubs and thousands of smaller plants allowing the owner to experiment for her business while creating an environment for her family. Wissahickon schist is their native stone that, when mixed with composted forest duff and left to decompose, provides rich loam. Larger stones were used to build steps to navigate steep slopes. After the garden matured both disease and natural events took a toll, forcing redesign.

Two mature oaks in front of the house succumbed to oak scorch and obscure scale and were removed, exposing the underlying shade garden to new conditions. A grove of birch was planted successfully that shades the understory and ground level garden. In 2011 an L-shaped unheated lap pool was installed down a slope amid a landscaped garden, with only a Franklinia lost. Deer and groundhog co-exist with the owners with some measures taken to deter them. Vigorous foliage growth is controlled by pruning from May to September to keep walkways and stairs open, to let in light, maximize flower production, and modify shapes and sizes in a natural garden design. In June 2020 a derecho uprooted two huge oak, an American beech, and a huge mature ash near the lower perimeter and dumped them on the neighbor's yard and house. Within six weeks the newly open area was cleared and replanted with an arc of sweet bay magnolia around a small terrace as well as native shrubs and grasses planted down another slope. The garden is so full that new plantings only can replace, not extend. The owners are introducing more native plants and minimizing spraying and non-natural pest control.

More than thirty varieties of exotic trees are planted at Saint Andrews including six different dogwood, six varieties of maple, dove tree, two types of magnolia, and two varieties of cryptomeria. Shrubs include dwarf needleleaf evergreens, more than twenty varieties of holly including miniatures, at least thirty rhododendron cultivars, at least forty azalea cultivars, daphne, aralia, paperbush, and more. There are more than twenty different clematis, too. A stone sculpture from South Africa and several statues and columns are placed around the garden.

Persons associated with the garden's design: Alice C. H. Farley and Richard J. Farley

Related Materials:

57 digital images (2004-2009; 2017, 2020-2023) and 2 file folders (1 digital).

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 -- Philadelphia  Search this

Landscape gardening  Search this

Gardening in the shade  Search this

Genre/Form:

Digital images

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File PA683

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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/kb6531216d1-7022-4c25-8f14-11de8b843be9

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref16536

Former owner:

Taylor, James  Search this

Williams, Lewis B.  Search this

Williams, William Clayton Mr. Mrs.  Search this

Landscape architect:

Gillette, Charles F.  Search this

Architect:

Craven, Thomas  Search this

Hale, Billy  Search this

Provenance:

Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Little Yatton (Orange, Virginia)

United States of America -- Virginia -- Orange County -- Orange

Scope and Contents:

The folders include worksheets, garden plans, a plant list, a photocopy of a 1987 article about the garden from Garden Design, and copies of correspondence about the garden and its documentation.

General:

This garden in rural Virginia was established in 1936 and is one of the earliest gardens designed to showcase wildflowers and woodland plants in a naturalistic setting. The focal point is a sunken garden to which one descends from the house. A glade with steep banks of azaleas, wildflowers, and shade-loving plants, it surrounds an ornamental pool with a delicate, bird-shaped fountain. A wooden gazebo provides a sheltered area for sitting, while tall, deciduous trees provide a naturalistic structure and open views to pastures and the surrounding countryside.

Persons associated with the property include: James Taylor (former owner, 1722); Lewis B. Williams (former owner, 1843); Mr. and Mrs. William Clayton Williams (former owners, before 1940); Charles Gillette (landscape architect, 1940-1960); Thomas Craven (architect); and Billy Hale (architect, 1937).

Related Materials:

Little Yatton related holdings consist of 2 folders (9 35 mm. slides)

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 -- Orange  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File VA254

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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/kb609234de1-e109-4724-ba6b-78a15c9bab49

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref18866

Former owner:

Walker, Thomas Dr  Search this

Walker, Judith Page  Search this

Rives, Alfred Landon Col  Search this

Rives, Amelia  Search this

Lawrence, Clark J., Col.  Search this

Lawrence, Clark J., Mrs.  Search this

Bird, Michael Donald, Mrs.  Search this

Cabell, William Mr Mrs  Search this

Cabell, William, Mrs.  Search this

Landscape architect:

Hopkins, Alden  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Castle Hill (Cobham, Virginia)

Scope and Contents:

Folder includes work sheet, brochures, garden map, grounds tour, and copies of articles.

General:

The mansion consists of two parts--the first built in 1764 by Dr. Thomas Walker and the second in 1824 by Senator and Mrs. William Cabell Rives. An hour-glass lawn and giant boxwood hedges make up a part of the landscape. Garden "rooms" were also created. In 1930, the landscape was described as "a great square, bounded on the north side by a high brick wall against which stand fig bushes, and enclosed on the other three sides by a Colonial arrowhead picket-fence. The garden lies in four deep terraces." (Potts 1930) The estate was open to the public from 1972 until ca. 1990. About ten years later the house was sold separate from the property. The house was subsequently moved off its foundations to a different location.

Persons associated with the property include: Dr. Thomas Walker (former owner, 1764); Senator and Mrs. William Cabell Rives (former owners, 1864); Col. Alfred Landon Rives (former owner); Amelie Rives (former owner); Col. and Mrs. Clark J. Lawrence (former owner, 1947); Mrs. Donald-Michael Bird (former owner, 1972); Wayne Newton (former owner); Alden Hopkins (landscape architect, 1947); and Judith Rives (designer of front lawn, 1832).

Related Materials:

Castle Hill related holdings consist of 1 folder (4 35 mm. slides and 5 glass lantern slides)

See others in:

Castle Hill, ca.1930-1984.

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 -- Cobham  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File VA026

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/kb67fc0eab6-736c-409a-951d-16f63a0e8253

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref18940

Photographer:

Whitney, Kate Lucey (Kathryn Lucey)  Search this

McBean, Edith  Search this

Garden designer:

Skelly, David  Search this

Sculptor:

Dongre, Anita  Search this

Provenance:

Newport Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Digital images

Place:

United States of America -- Rhode Island -- Newport County -- Newport

Salt Marsh House (Newport, Rhode Island)

Scope and Contents:

20 digital images (2020-2021).

General:

The house built in 1929 is sited on Goose Neck Cove 14 feet above sea level and surrounded on three sides by tidal marshland. There were no specific plans for gardens within the 4.13 acre property when a young gardener was hired in 1992 - just instructions to add a vegetable and cutting garden. What has been developed since are garden rooms, including a Japanese room, a certified arboretum with 85 different specimen and native trees including a grove of paperbark maples, distinctive hedgerows with openings to hidden garden rooms, and significant coastal restoration of the marshes. That work on this property began with hand removal of invasive phragmites (grasses) and purple loosestrife followed by the planting of native spartina grass, broadleaf cattail, milkweed, shadbush, and bayberry to create a rich coastal ecosystem. Now the natives bordering the salt marsh meld into the cultivated landscape.

The tree collection includes buckeye and horse chestnut, a pollarded catalpa, an espaliered Anjou pear, a big leaf magnolia at the front of the house that faces the street, and around the perimeter of the property there are willow, cedar, umbrella pine and crabapple. Hurricane Sandy felled a 55-foot giant sequoia but the gardeners have replanted two more on higher ground. The Japanese room, inspired by the owner's travel, is planted with azaleas and has a pond and a Thai wooden temple. Sculpture in the gardens include a Buddha head and a Dappu JuJu elephant sculpted by Anita Dongre. An art collection is housed in a barn built near the house.

Other garden rooms include two vegetable patches and a cutting bed, a meditation garden, an informal herb garden, and a sundial island garden planted with boxwood, santolina, sedums and astilbe. A cattail trail leads to a high viewing platform over the marsh. Through plant choice and design the collaboration of owner and manager have created an evolving landscape in this coastal location that will withstand both weather events and climate change.

Persons associated with the garden's design: Edith McBean (owner, gardener, art collector, 1992- ); Devin Skelly (estate gardener and designer, 1992- ).

Provenance:

The Newport Garden Club facilitated the 2021 submission.

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 -- Rhode Island -- Newport  Search this

Arboretums  Search this

Landscape gardening  Search this

Marshes  Search this

Genre/Form:

Digital images

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File RI139

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The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Rhode Island

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6c21c9de3-7e7f-41e4-9775-953428bed903

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33272

Creator:

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958  Search this

Sylestine, Harden  Search this

Extent:

5,400 Items (cards )

4 Boxes

Culture:

Alibamu  Search this

Coushatta (Koasati)  Search this

Alabama Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Dictionaries

Date:

1906-1913

Scope and Contents:

Alabama-English, 2433 typed cards in 2 boxes; English-Alabama, approximately 3000 typed and autograph A. cards in 2 boxes. Includes terms written in pencil and marked "(K)," which may be terms in Koasati. Informants are Harden Sylestine and others.

Swanton's arrangement of the Alabama-English section is generally alphabetical, with many terms grouped together by stesm. The cards have been stamped with consecutive numbers 1-2433, and Swanton's order has been preserved. Cards that had been clipped together now have a second number, beginning with 1 for the first in a clipped group (e.g., if cards 25-27 were found clipped together, they would now be numbered 25-1, 26-2, 27-3).

The Alabama-English section (with sequentially numbered cards) contains utterances identifiable by a following number in parentheses. If the number does not begin with zero, apparently if refers to Swanton's page numbers in his rough field notes (M 4151 "second set"). Numbers beginning with zero seem to refer to the"first set," MS 4151-- Karen Lupardus, August 18, 1978.

Biographical / Historical:

The note by Swanton preceding Alabama-English section reads? "The material marked (H) was furnished by an Alabama Indian, Harden Sylestine, who translated in his own way. His translation is usually preserved lest a mistake be made in altering; the material is to be corrected later. This includes all of my Alabama material except 12 pages of text by native informants and a vocabulary which for the most part duplicates what has been given."

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2435

Place:

Texas Polk County

Other Archival Materials:

Related Collection: Manuscript 4151

Related Collection: Manuscript 7360

Related Collection: Manuscript 7361

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern states  Search this

Genre/Form:

Dictionaries

Citation:

Manuscript 2435, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS2435

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3a7cf5734-ebaa-4e0c-82f2-e8a0b15d0fe6

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2435

Collection Photographer:

Druse, Kenneth  Search this

Extent:

166 Photographs

Type:

Archival materials

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:

Rockwork  Search this

Rock gardens  Search this

Succulent plants  Search this

Planting (Plant culture)  Search this

Gardening  Search this

Stone walls  Search this

Sempervivum  Search this

Wall gardens  Search this

Aubrieta  Search this

Sedum  Search this

Boulders  Search this

Ground cover plants  Search this

Alpine garden plants  Search this

Alpine gardens  Search this

Climbing plants  Search this

Vines  Search this

Campanula  Search this

Primroses  Search this

Asarum  Search this

Lathyrus  Search this

Hillside planting  Search this

Cerastium  Search this

Carex  Search this

Carex  Search this

Container gardening -- Equipment and supplies  Search this

Garden ornaments and furniture  Search this

Trough gardens  Search this

Ferns  Search this

Flower gardening  Search this

Pinks (Plants)  Search this

Ornamental evergreens  Search this

Chamaemelum  Search this

Pulsatilla  Search this

Hosta  Search this

Stepping stones  Search this

Container gardening  Search this

Plants, Potted  Search this

Lamium  Search this

Moss gardens  Search this

Public gardens  Search this

Houses  Search this

Phlox  Search this

Yarrow  Search this

Purple loosestrife  Search this

Lythrum  Search this

Lavenders  Search this

Roses  Search this

Landscape gardening  Search this

Daffodils  Search this

Daylilies  Search this

Parthenocissus  Search this

Garden walks  Search this

Cactus  Search this

Ivy  Search this

Linum  Search this

Flax  Search this

Veronica  Search this

Geraniums  Search this

Woodland garden plants  Search this

Woodland gardens  Search this

Mosses  Search this

Ipomopsis  Search this

Papaver  Search this

Poppies  Search this

Dicentra  Search this

Daphnes (flower)  Search this

Waterfalls  Search this

Violets  Search this

Tulips  Search this

Pine  Search this

Retaining walls  Search this

Muscari  Search this

Hyacinths  Search this

Oxalis  Search this

Flower beds  Search this

Garden borders  Search this

Bamboo  Search this

Lawns  Search this

Bodies of water  Search this

Irises (Plants)  Search this

Salvia  Search this

Astilbe  Search this

Stachys  Search this

Lamb's ears  Search this

Mulleins  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Ken Druse garden photography collection

Sponsor:

Cataloging of this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.DRU, File DRU090

See more items in:

Ken Druse garden photography collection

Ken Druse garden photography collection / Series 2: Garden Images by Subject

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb696f7925b-e266-43d0-879c-822e3804966c

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-dru-ref85

Former owner:

Graniere, Bobby  Search this

McCall, Cary Lawson  Search this

Architect:

Samsel, Jim  Search this

Turner, Deborah  Search this

Landscaper:

Hoots, Mark  Search this

Provenance:

The French Broad River Garden Club Foundation  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

"Kinkaku-Ji" Garden (Asheville, North Carolina)

United States of America -- North Carolina -- Buncombe -- Asheville

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes worksheets, garden plans, and photocopies of articles.

"Kinkaku-Ji" Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder and 41 digital images (2013, 2022).

General:

Created in 2010 and 2011 this Asian dry-landscape garden features more than 200 bonsai and overlooks a stone house and courtyard garden within a one and one-quarter acre hillside property in North Carolina. The owners named their garden after the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, Japan, and installed a pavilion used for entertaining, winter storage of some of the bonsai collections, and for storing gardening supplies. The rectangular garden and adjacent lawn are enclosed by low stone walls where the smaller bonsai containers are displayed, each sitting on a revolving stone to facilitate watering and sun exposure. The surface of the dry garden is brown crushed gravel, with islands of mondo grass and stonecrop planted with Japanese maples, boxwood, dwarf hosta, rockwork, and two large boulders echoing Tenryuji's boulder arrangement in Kyoto. There is a waterfall boulder from which water feeds into a meandering stream that ends at a stone-lined small pond, with a statue of Buddha alongside. The pond and stream are lined with pebbles and usually kept dry. A brass Burmese temple gong hangs at the pavilion.

The owners became interested in bonsai and Asian design while living in New York, and have been active in the National Bonsai Friendship Foundation, the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington DC, and the World Bonsai Federation. Two ancient trees in their collection were gifts for service to the federation.

Persons associated with the garden include: Jim Samsel and Deborah Turner (pavilion architects); Mark Hoots (landscaper).

The owners became interested in bonsai and Asian design while living in New York, and have been active in the National Bonsai Friendship Foundation, the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington DC, and the World Bonsai Federation. Two ancient trees in their collection were gifts for service to the federation.

Persons associated with the garden include: Bobby Graniere and Cary Lawson McCall (former owners, 2006-2010); Jim Samsel and Deborah Turner (architects); Mark Hoots (landscaper).

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 -- North Carolina -- Asheville  Search this

Japanese gardens  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File NC081

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / North Carolina

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6121df320-3e07-466b-abf0-59f5005c25ca

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref12963

Landscape architect:

Seward, William  Search this

Pitkin & Mott  Search this

Architect:

Hahn, Donald V. Senour  Search this

Mack, Clarence  Search this

Creator:

King, Charles Kelley  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Ohio -- Mansfield

United States of America -- Ohio -- Richland County -- Mansfield

General:

Further sources of information include: 1. Your Garden. February, 1930, page 16. 2. Your Garden. May, 1930, page 32. Thatched shelter by D. V. S. Hahn. 3. Your Garden. April, 1930, page 21. 4. Your Garden and Home. February, 1932, page 42.

Twenty-seven acres of landscaped gardens and twenty more acres of woodlands.

Related Materials:

Kingwood Center related holdings consist of 1 slide (col.)

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:

Spring  Search this

Sunken gardens  Search this

Rockwork  Search this

Pavilions  Search this

Swimming pools  Search this

Trellises  Search this

Tools  Search this

Pitchforks  Search this

Gates  Search this

Benches  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File OH167

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Ohio

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6875cb8af-c0d3-471a-9b8d-05519f74f76a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref15536

Landscape architect:

Seward, William  Search this

Pitkin & Mott  Search this

Architect:

Hahn, Donald V. Senour  Search this

Mack, Clarence  Search this

Creator:

King, Charles Kelley  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

1 Slides (photographs) (col.)

Type:

Archival materials

Slides (photographs)

Place:

Ohio -- Mansfield

United States of America -- Ohio -- Richland County -- Mansfield

Date:

1930

General:

Further sources of information include: 1. Your Garden. February, 1930, page 16. 2. Your Garden. May, 1930, page 32. Thatched shelter by D. V. S. Hahn. 3. Your Garden. April, 1930, page 21. 4. Your Garden and Home. February, 1932, page 42. Twenty-seven acres of landscaped gardens and twenty more acres of woodlands.

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:

Spring  Search this

Plan views  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, Item OH167001

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The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Ohio / OH167: Mansfield -- Kingwood Center

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6bf1bfe47-7537-4479-aa90-f5b1a55ad096

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref16277

Provenance:

Worcester Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Misty Meadows (Bolton, Massachusetts)

United States of America -- Massachusetts -- Worcester County -- Bolton

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes a worksheet and stroll map.

General:

Misty Meadows has a variety of offerings, including a wooden pavilion planted with peonies. A Japanese garden and tea house sits on the edge of a pond. In the opposite corner of the garden, the Japanese influences continue with a Japanese Screen Garden. Misty Meadows also has a woodland garden and a flag pole garden.

People associated with the garden include: Dr. R.H. Hooker (landscape gardener, 1964-84) and Nancy W. Norseen (landscape gardener, 1984-1999).

Related Materials:

Misty Meadows related holdings consist of 1 folder (16 35 mm. slides)

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 -- Bolton  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File MA325

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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/kb640bc97f5-9ce8-48fa-b0cb-23fa78b8228f

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref17559

Former owner:

Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927  Search this

Lee, Thomas  Search this

Gardener:

Sander, Charles  Search this

Provenance:

Chestnut Hill Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Holm Lea (Brookline, Massachusetts)

United States of America -- Massachusetts -- Norfolk County -- Brookline

Scope and Contents:

The folders include worksheets and several photocopies of articles about the garden.

General:

Established in 1869, this now mostly vanished garden was the 150-acre estate of Harvard professor and Arnold Arboretum director Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927). An amalgamation of several older holdings, Holm Lea was noted for its size, the variety of its trees and shrubs, its broad expanses of lawn and meadow, and its vistas and natural woods. As noted by Andrew Jackson Downing in the second edition of his work on landscape gardening published in 1844, much of the groundwork was laid by Thomas Lee, an owner prior to Sargent, who planted trees and shrubs such as rhododendron and kalmia. By the early 1900s the garden's collection of these plants was considered to be outstanding. A later writer noted that Holm Lea "is the most inspiring estate in the United States and the best specimen of landscape-gardening in America because every department of country life is here represented in due proportion without extravagance or faddism, and all are blended into a beautiful and useful picture which is nothing short of exquisite." Among Holm Lea's other features were a rock garden, a pond, and a small herd of cows that added to the picturesque aspect of the landscape. Charles Sander, Holm Lea's gardener for more than 30 years, was a recognized plantsman and Massachusetts Horticultural Society award winner. Although the estate was subdivided after Sargent's death, elements of the garden, including the now algae-choked pond and overgrown rock garden, still survived in the 1990s.

Persons associated with the garden include: Thomas Lee (former owner, ca. 1825-ca. 1864); Charles Sprague Sargent (former owner, 1869-1927); and Charles Sander (gardener, 1875-ca. 1910).

In addition to the 41 original images, there are 16 additional black and white 35 mm. slides, copies of photographs in The Public Library of Brookline, 361 Washington Street, Brookline, MA 024445.

Related Materials:

Holm Lea related holdings consist of 4 folders (41 35 mm. slides, glass slides, photoprints, and photonegatives)

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 -- Brookline  Search this

Collection Citation:

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.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File MA031

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/kb6a9530940-77b7-4edf-b9cb-584145d647de

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref17568