The Giving Garden

Smithsonian Gardens

Just like The Giving Tree, gardens and plants have been giving to humans for time out of mind. These collection items represents a small fraction of them.

Amelanchier arborea

Asimina triloba

Carya ovata

Castanea sp.

Cornus kousa 'Triple Crown'

Diospyros virginiana

Juniperus virginiana

Rhus typhina 'Laciniata'

Sassafras albidum

Planting Fall Vegetables - Let's Talk Gardens

Schwab Garden

[Haskell Garden]: vegetable garden from southeast corner.

[The Patterson Garden]: herbs and vegetables grow in raised beds behind the carriage house.

[Burrwood House]: raised vegetable garden in the spring with iris blooming outside the rail fence and climbing hydrangea on the stone wall.

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