Archives of American Gardens

Archives of American Gardens
Annual Report for 2012
for the Garden Club of America’s Garden History and Design Committee
Smithsonian Institution Staff
● Barbara Faust, Associate Director, Smithsonian Gardens (SG), Office of Facilities
Management and Reliability (OFMR)
● Cindy Brown, Manager, Horticulture Collections Management and Education
branch (HCME)
● Paula Healy
} Museum Specialists, Horticulture Collections Management and
● Joyce Connolly } Education branch (HCME)
● Kelly Crawford }
Mission Statement
The Archives of American Gardens (AAG) both collects and preserves a visual record of
representative American gardens and their features as well as the work of select
landscape practitioners, and documents the activities and collections of the
Horticulture Services Division of the Smithsonian Institution.
AAG’s mission is to collect and make available for research use unique, high-quality
images of and documentation relating to a wide variety of cultivated gardens
throughout the United States that are not documented elsewhere since historic,
designed, and cultural landscapes are subject to change, loss, and destruction. In this
way, AAG strives to preserve and highlight a meaningful compendium of significant
aspects of gardening in the United States for the benefit of researchers and the public
today and in the future.
Notable Highlights
Anniversaries
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2012 marked the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Archives of
American Gardens as well as the GCA’s deposit of its Slide Library of Notable American Parks and Gardens with the AAG! While the Garden Club of America
Collection was formally donated to the Smithsonian five years later, we still
celebrate 1987 as the ‘birthday’ of this wonderful collection.
2012 was also the 20th anniversary of the GCA’s Garden History and Design Committee which was founded in 1992!
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AAG Award
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AAG received the American Public Gardens Association Award for Program
Excellence! This annual award recognizes exemplary public garden
programming that has been a pioneer in a discipline related to public
horticultural institutions. Past recipients of this award include such public
garden luminaries as Longwood Gardens, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and
the Missouri Botanical Garden.
New Acquisition by AAG
 In addition to garden documentation submitted to the GCA Collection
throughout the year, AAG acquired a significant addition to the Eleanor
Weller Collection. Mrs. Weller Reade donated over 33,000 35mm slides that
she either photographed or compiled over the years. You may recognize her
as a driving force behind the creation of the GCA Slide Library of Notable
American Parks and Gardens which later became the GCA Collection. She is
also the co-author of the book, The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud
Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940.
American Garden Legacy Series Exhibit
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Work continues on a new
Smithsonian American Garden
Legacy exhibit that will highlight
mid-century gardens. If
everything goes as planned, the
exhibit is slated to premiere in
spring 2014. Former GHD Intern
Kate Fox was contracted by AAG
to research the topic and write
an exhibit script.
Farnham Garden in Mendham, NJ.
c. 1960s. Maida Babson Adams
American Gardens Collection.
Other
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Both the Archives of American Gardens and Smithsonian Gardens got their
very own Wikipedia entries in 2012. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archives_of_American_Gardens and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Gardens for the pages. Many
thanks to Kelly Crawford for facilitating the creation of these pages which
will serve as another tool to inform the public about what we do.
Smithsonian Gardens’ website was revamped thanks to an outside contractor. The pages are now more informative, organized, and eyecatching. Please be sure to visit www.gardens.si.edu if you haven’t seen it lately. AAG’s web pages went along for the ride as well: www.aag.si.edu .
This page includes many important resources such as ‘Recent Acquisitions’ 2
and links to AAG’s blogs, Mystery Gardens and Virtual
Volunteers pages. Be sure to
bookmark it!
AAG’s web page, www.aag.si.edu,
on the Smithsonian Gardens’ website.
GCA Collection Submission Statistics for 2012
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49 gardens were accessioned into the GCA Collection in 2012. The list of
gardens is appended at the end of this report.
Many thanks to the Garden History & Design Committee for the many
handsome garden submissions that you send to AAG throughout the year for
the GCA Collection. We’re grateful to each and every GCA volunteer for the
time, effort, and dedication that goes into documenting gardens for the GCA
Collection. Each submission adds to the overall collection and captures
today’s history of a garden for future generations. The Curtiss House Gardens in Bay City, MI. One of 49 gardens documented in the GCA
Collection in 2012. Sally J. Sanders, photographer.
A special thank you to those clubs who documented gardens for the GCA Collection in
2012…
Zone I: GC of Dublin; GC of Mt. Desert, Nantucket GC
Zone II: Connecticut Valley GC; Litchfield GC; Newport GC; GC of Hartford; GC
of New Haven
Zone III: North Country GC of Long Island
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Zone IV: GC of Madison
Zone V: GC of Wilmington; GC of Allegheny County; Carrie T. Watson GC
Zone VII: Fauquier and Loudon GC; Dolley Madison GC
Zone VIII: Late Bloomers GC; Peachtree GC & Cherokee GC (collaborative
submission); GC of Palm Beach; Red Mountain GC
Zone IX: Founders GC of Dallas; Greenville GC; GC of Houston; Little GC of
Memphis; Memphis GC; New Orleans Town Gardeners
Zone X: Bay City GC; Indianapolis GC
Zone XI: Des Moines Founders GC; Green Tree GC; Town and Country GC;
Westport GC
Zone XII: GC of Honolulu; Pasadena GC; GC of Santa Barbara; WoodsideAtherton GC
..and for ‘solving‘ Mystery Gardens from the original GCA donation that lacked
necessary Garden Owner Releases:
Zone II: Washington GC
Zone IX: Little Rock GC; Memphis GC
Cataloging Statistics
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Approximately half of the gardens accessioned in 2012 have been cataloged.
This includes both new accessions and updates of old garden submissions
that were submitted to AAG in 2012. Representative images of each garden
are available online in the SIRIS database at www.siris.si.edu.
See the “Recent Acquisitions” web pages at
http://gardens.si.edu/collections-research/aag-recent-acquisitions2012.html for a list of all the submissions to the GCA Collection added in
2012. After a garden is cataloged into SIRIS, its entry on the Recent
Acquisitions page goes live and links directly to corresponding catalog
entries and images in SIRIS.
Once a garden is accessioned into the GCA Collection, the estimated time
frame for cataloging into SIRIS is approximately six to nine months. Please
contact Kelly if you or your Zones have questions about the status of a garden
submission.
GHD Committee Meetings
GHD Committee Spring Meeting in New Orleans, LA, March 13-15
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Discussion topics at the meeting included outreach, communications with
clubs, GCA awards, articles for the GCA Bulletin, and the revamped GCA
website.
Barbara Kehoe walked everyone through the GHD Committee page on the
GCA website so they knew where critical resources could be found.
Very special thanks to Barbara, Bonnie Thurmond, Hebe Splane and Donna
Stout for the fantastic local arrangements and garden tours.
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Grinnan House and Garden was one of several gardens that were visited during the GHD
Committee meeting. It was documented for the GCA Collection in 2002. Flora French,
photographer, 1998.
GHD Committee Meeting at GCA Headquarters, NYC, June 4-5
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Many thanks to outgoing GHD Chair Barbara Kehoe for her service on the
GHD Committee for several years. Her efforts to streamline the GHD
Committee’s webpage and to encourage GHD exhibits at GCA meetings and
flower shows will have a lasting impact!
GHD Committee Fall Meeting in Washington, DC, September 11-13
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This meeting, hosted by AAG, included a PowerPoint presentation by AAG
staff that reviewed the contents of the Procedures Manual and Procedures
Manual Appendix.
The GHD Committee got the opportunity to tour Smithsonian Gardens’ greenhouse facility in Suitland, MD during the fall meeting. The facility, which includes 14
greenhouses, opened in 2010. Eric Long, SI photographer.
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This meeting featured an AAG workshop where GHD Reps ‘documented’ the Smithsonian’s Butterfly Habitat Garden. Each GHD Rep received a workbook 5
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which featured a number of exercises that broke the respective process into
its component parts and posed good/better/best options.
All members received a ‘master’ CD with several PowerPoint presentations developed for education and outreach purposes for their clubs.
The GHD Committee visited a number of gardens in the Old Town section of Alexandria, VA
during the fall meeting including the Carriage House Garden (left) and the Old Town Walled
Garden (right), both of which are documented in the GCA Collection. Henrietta Burke,
photographer.
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GHD Committee members toured AAG’s reference room and cool vault as
well as Smithsonian Gardens’ offsite greenhouse facility in Maryland.
Very special thanks to Zone VII Rep Betsy Huffman and Vice Chair Daphne
Cheatham for arranging tours of a number of gardens in D.C. and Alexandria,
Virginia.
AAG Projects
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)
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We hope you have many occasions to access the GCA Collection images on
the SIRIS search page at www.siris.si.edu. This web site features over 1.9
million catalog records for library and archival holdings throughout the
Smithsonian! Although AAG accounts for less than 2% of that total (33,000+
catalog records), its holdings garnered over 200,000 search hits in SIRIS in
2012!
Our challenge now is to revisit early GCA Collection catalog records on SIRIS
that are not linked to images in order to address any relevant copyright and
use issues.
Digital Submissions
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It has been four years since AAG’s Digital Submission Policy was launched! 75% of the submissions received in 2012 included digital images; 30%
included 35mm slides (the overlap accounting for submissions with both
digital images and slides).
Thank you for following the standards outlined in AAG’s Digital Submission
Policy. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions about eligible
camera models, etc.
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‘Take Ten to Tag’ AAG Virtual Volunteer Initiative
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During American Archives Month in October, AAG promoted its Virtual
Volunteer initiative that asks for the public’s help in tagging AAG images on
SIRIS.
Thanks to an email blast from AAG directed to library science, horticulture
and landscape architecture university programs dozens of ‘virtual volunteers’ added hundreds of tags to various AAG images in SIRIS. Tagging involves adding
keywords to an image which is
critical when it comes time to
find it again. While AAG staff
assign standardized ‘authority terms’ to each image, other more common or colloquial
terms that the typical user
might use to search for images
might be lacking which would
make searching more difficult
for them. Think of the many
ways that we refer to a single
garden feature: path, pathway,
walkway, walk, etc. Public
tagging helps tease out these
variants that make searching
easier.
Visit http://www.gardens.si.edu/collections-research/virtual-volunteer.html
for more details on how to become an AAG Virtual Volunteer.
Digitizing Glass Lantern Slides
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Thanks to a $26,000. grant from the Smithsonian’s Collection Care and Preservation Fund, AAG hired a contractor to inventory and re-scan close to
3,500 fragile glass lantern slides from the GCA Collection.
The scans produced high-resolution images that supplant poor quality scans
on SIRIS that were made several years ago.
Each digital image is maintained on the Smithsonian’s Digital Asset Management System.
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A comprehensive inventory of the 3,479 glass lantern slides in the GCA Collection was
completed at the same time they were re-digitized and rehoused in archival boxes. The
lantern slide for the Welles Garden in Lake Forest, Ill. (left) shows how meticulous the handtinting process was.
Finding Aids
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Thanks to a Smithsonian Collection Information System grant, a number of
AAG finding aids were uniformly updated to ensure that they meet Encoded
Archival Description standards. AAG’s finding aids document what each AAG
collection includes and make research access easier.
AAG Mystery Gardens
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While the original GCA donation to the Smithsonian in 1992 was a goldmine
of garden documentation, it also included hundreds of gardens that were
either unidentified or lacked descriptive information and/or AAG Releases
that would enable them to be made available for research use. Without basic
information or permissions, the informational value of this documentation,
dubbed “Mystery Gardens,” is severely limited.
Please urge your clubs to visit
AAG’s Mystery Gardens webpage at
www.gardens.si.edu/collectionsresearch/mystery-gardensinitiative.html if they haven’t already. Be sure to contact AAG
if you can solve any of these
mysteries!
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States with unidentified gardens in AAG
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Please contact AAG if you have clubs in your zone that may be interested in
following up on any identified gardens in their area that lack basic descriptive
information. AAG may have a client name and location for these gardens, but
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that’s it! ANY information that can be provided about any of these gardens
(many of which date from the 1960s to the 1980s) will help to rescue their
story before they sink into anonymity.
Please note that many of the ‘Mystery Gardens’ are not cataloged in SIRIS. AAG is
happy to supply a list of relevant identified-but-lacking-information Mystery
Gardens to interested clubs to get the process started.
AAG especially needs help with numerous gardens in New Jersey, New York, and
Connecticut!
Interns, Fellow and Volunteers
GCA Garden History and Design Interns
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AAG was most fortunate to have two interns funded by the GCA’s Garden History and Design Internship in 2012! The GCA scholarship supplements a
stipend that is awarded by Smithsonian Gardens; both help to attract strong
candidates.
Jessica Dame (University of South Carolina, Master’s in Library and Information Science) and Julie Hunter (Pratt Institute, pursuing a Master’s in Library and Information Science), joined AAG in May for ten-week internships.
Jessica and Julie worked to make portions of the GCA Collection readily
accessible for research use. Among the projects they worked on: cataloging
scores of images from the GCA Collection for SIRIS, uploading digital images
into the Smithsonian’s Digital Asset Management System, and writing a
number of GHD One Minute Reports and posts for social media outlets based
on the AAG collections. They accomplished an incredible amount of work
during their tenure with us!
GHD/AAG Interns Jessica Dame (left) and Julie Hunter.
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Special thanks go to the GCA Scholarship Committee and GHD Reps who made
a careful review of the applicants and for all of their support.
Smithsonian Gardens’ Interns
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Smithsonian Gardens’ Horticulture Collections Management and Education
(HCME) branch (which AAG falls under) manages SG’s very active intern program: http://gardens.si.edu/get-involved/internships.html . Somewhere
in the neighborhood of 15 to 20 interns join the various units of SG throughout
the year for internships ranging from 10 to 16 weeks.
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HCME hosted 3 interns during 2012 that worked on a variety of AAG-related
projects including collections processing, cataloging and digitization; outreach;
and social media and posts for SG’s website.
o Andrew Harris recently received his Master’s in Library and
Information Science at the University of South Carolina. While at SG,
he divided his time between AAG (cataloging and collections
processing) and educational outreach (Garden Fest and SG
Newsletter).
o Jessica Short also earned a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina. She was particularly
involved with the very successful ‘Take Ten to Tag’ initiative. o Kristina Borrman, who
received her stipend from
the Katzenberger
Foundation which
supports art-based
internships, researched
the glass lantern slides in
the GCA Collection to
determine which may
have been photographed
by Frances Benjamin
Johnston. Gardens for a
Beautiful America, 18951935 (insert), by historian
Sam Watters, featuring
hundreds of Johnston’s
garden photographs was
published recently.
Enid A. Haupt Fellowship in Horticulture
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SG’s 2011-2012 Haupt Fellow, Amy McFarland (Texas A&M University, Ph.D.,
Horticulture; Texas State University, Master’s, Agriculture), completed an 8month fellowship with SG in August. Her research topic was Public Gardens in
Urban Spaces: Inspiring a Sense of Place for Urban Populations.
Joe Cialdella, the 2012-2013 Haupt Fellow, is currently a doctoral candidate at
the University of Michigan. The research project he will be conducting while in
residence at SG is "Gardens in the City: How Gardens Changed Communities,
Landscapes and Public Spaces in American Cities in the Past and Present." The
title of his dissertation is: "Landscape of Ruin and Repair: A Cultural History of
Environmental Change in the Rustbelt." It examines the cultural meaning of
landscape change in "rustbelt" cities, such as Detroit, Michigan. Using historic
methodology, he analyzes how community gardens and parks functioned as
important public spaces central to the cultural life and livelihood of American
cities from the late 19th century to the present.
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AAG Volunteers
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AAG’s premier volunteer, Nancy Sahli, celebrated her 13th anniversary with us
in May. Over the years, she has cataloged thousands of images from the GCA
Collection into SIRIS.
Marca Woodhams, AAG’s volunteer of seven years, is the former librarian of
the Smithsonian’s Horticulture Library and instituted the earliest collections management policies for the AAG which have successfully guided its
operations for more than twenty years. During the year, Marca processed
portions of the Hollerith and Poinier Collections, both of which found a home
at AAG thanks to GCA members.
Judith Lesser is the owner of an antique business. She assists with cataloging
new garden submissions in the GCA Collection.
AAG Contractor
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Anna Barker, a former AAG intern, was contracted on a part-time basis to
assist with AAG’s Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), digitizing, cataloging and other archival tasks. Anna spent part of her time digitizing
the historic glass lantern slides in the GCA Collection. She also ingested
images from the GCA Collection into the Smithsonian’s Digital Asset Management System .
Research Inquiries
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AAG staff received a total of 278 requests for information in 2012; 109 (or
40%) of the queries involved holdings in the GCA Collection.
A number of requests involved landscape historians researching different
historic landscapes for restoration purposes and numerous scholars and
writers researching gardens for books, articles, exhibitions and lectures.
In addition, AAG staff handled a number of inquiries from GCA members and
GHD Reps, some of whom were writing articles for the GCA Bulletin or their
club newsletters, putting together presentations or reports for their clubs or
GCA Headquarters, or asking about the holdings for specific gardens in the
GCA Collection.
HCME staff also assisted several Smithsonian units needing SG images for
outreach purposes.
All AAG catalog entries in SIRIS have a link to AAG’s research query address (aag@si.edu).
Use of GCA Collection Images
Research and Outreach
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Of particular note are queries we received from:
o a request from Historic New England to use a glass lantern slide in a
guide to Hamilton House in South Berwick, Maine
o a writer seeking images for an article in The Old House Journal
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o a researcher from England using a historic glass lantern slide for garden
restoration purposes
o a member of the Beatrix Farrand Society researching Farrand-related
materials
o a Cincinnati homeowner restoring his historic garden that is
documented in the GCA Collection
o a garden designer interested in glass lantern slide views of her greatgrandmother’s garden that are included in the GCA Collection
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In 2012, GCA Collection gardens were cited or images reprinted in a number
of publications, etc. including the following:
o The Augusta Chronicle.com posted 3/12: announcement of the
passing of early GHD Committee member Marie (Frenchie) Bush of
Augusta mentions her documentation of Georgia gardens for the
Smithsonian.
o Malvern Patch.com (Penn.) posted 3/16: announcement that Penelope
Watkins, whose garden is included in the GCA Collection, has been
appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Natural Lands Trust.
o The March/April issue of Delta Magazine featured an article about the
GHD Committee and the Greenville, Mississippi gardens that
are included in the GCA Collection.
o Westport News posted 5/8: article on Sasqua GC /GCA flower show.
Mentions exhibit on garden history and design that showcases a
garden recently accepted by AAG.
o Wall Street Journal 8/23 online article; 8/24 printed article: re:
MA386 Innisfree in Nantucket, Mass. Mentions that garden was
recently added to AAG.
o Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/6 online article entitled “Designer’s classic Squirrel Hill garden named to Smithsonian archives,” Article describes recent garden submissions by the Allegheny County GC to AAG and its
efforts to seek out gardens to document. http://old.postgazette.com/pg/12280/1267190-47.stm
o Hartford Courant 10/21 article/obituary on Patricia Porter
mentioned that her garden is included in the AAG.
o Front page article on 11/11 in The Cleveland (MS) Current on the
recent submission by the Greenville GC of McCartys Pottery in
Merigold, MS. Hebe Splane, a former Zone IX Rep and Vice Chair of the
GHD Committee is quoted!
o The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) 12/6 obituary on Jimmy
Graham mentions that his garden is included in the AAG. The article
quotes Ruthie Bowlin, a GHD Committee volunteer for her club.
Thank you for letting us know of any articles or postings you come across
that refer to the GCA Collection—it is a huge help as we don’t always know (despite our best efforts) where GCA Collection images or citations will
appear.
Please remind your clubs to let us know if they wish to use any GCA
Collection images in presentations, displays, newsletters, etc. This enables us
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to track how the collection is being used and by whom which helps to justify
our operation to Smithsonian management.
GH&D Committee Outreach Materials
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At the fall GHD Committee meeting, each GHD Zone Rep received a CD with
PowerPoint presentations on, among other things, an overview of garden
history and design customized for each Zone, how to document a garden for
the AAG, and both of the Smithsonian American Garden Legacy exhibitions to
date that utilized dozens of images from the GCA Collection.
We hope your GHD volunteers will have an opportunity to present one or
more of these programs to their clubs in the future in order to highlight the
critical importance of the GCA Collection and the many ways in which it is
used by researchers.
Outreach and Public Relations
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The following AAG GHD Minutes were distributed to the GHD Committee:
o Gnome, Sweet Gnome (Jan.)
o Sundials: What Time is It? (Feb.)
o How Does Your Garden Grow? [documenting a garden’s construction] (Mar.)
o Sustainable Gardening:
von Hasseln Garden
(Apr.)
o Don’t Throw Stones: Glasshouses (May)
o Dovecotes (Jun.)
o Parlez-vous français?
Adopting French Language
in the Garden (July)
o Espaliers (Aug.)
o The Doctor is In: Physic
Gardens (Sep.)
o Fairy Gardens: The World in
Miniature (Oct.)
o Top of the World! Rooftop
Gardens (Nov.)
AAG is one of several Smithsonian archives that regularly contribute to the
Smithsonian’s Collection Search Center blog. The following blogs were
posted by AAG to the Smithsonian Collections Blog. We hope the titles of the
AAG blogs posted in 2012 intrigue you enough to visit http://sisiris.blogspot.com/search/label/Gardens to see all the AAG blogs posted to
date!
o House Hunting (Jan.)
o The Great American Lawn (Feb.)
o Modern Comes to International Flower Show (Mar.)
o Parlez-vous français? Adopting French Language in the Garden (Apr.)
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o Don’t Throw Stones: Glasshouses (May)
o California: A Modern Eden (Jun.)
o Sneak Peek from the Stacks: Frances Benjamin Johnston (Jul.)
o Espaliers (Aug.)
o Take Ten Minutes to Tag for the Archives of American Gardens (Oct.)
o Hide in Plain Sight [Identifying mislabeled images] (Oct.)
o Happy Birthday, Gertrude Jekyll (Nov.)
SG staff presented a litany of educational programming and outreach activities
throughout the year in a variety of venues including numerous garden tours,
lectures, presentations and how-to workshops.
o In February, Longwood Gardens’ Library & Information Services Coordinator visited Smithsonian Gardens to learn about AAG
operations. Longwood is surveying similar collection management
programs to model its own policies and operations after.
o In March, Cindy Brown led two separate bus tours to the Philadelphia
International Flower Show. During the trip she spoke about AAG’s resources.
o Cindy led a bus tour on April 21 to Staunton during Historic Garden
Week in Virginia for The Smithsonian Associates. During the ride she
spoke about AAG and Smithsonian Gardens.
o The very next day Cindy gave a lecture at The Long Island Museum on
AAG!
o In May, Cindy and soon-to-be Haupt Fellow Joe Cialdella presented a
workshop at the American Association of Museum’s Annual Conference on Cultivating Community: Lessons from the Garden.
o Cindy presented numerous other public and garden club programs on topics
ranging from the farm-to-table initiative, to potagers, to holiday decoration
traditions.
The Smithsonian Gardens Newsletter comes out every quarter with articles on
what the many units of Smithsonian Gardens are up to. To sign-up for this enewsletter, email gardens@si.edu .
GCA Clubs
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Twenty-five members of the Chevy Chase (MD) GC toured the archives in the
spring after visiting some of the Smithsonian gardens.
Cindy gave an overview of the history of the GCA Collection and documenting
gardens for the AAG to The Fauquier and Loudon GC (VA) in September.
Cindy gave a lecture on AAG at a
combined meeting of the
Litchfield GC and GC of Hartford
in November. The turnout was
terrific--approximately 75
people attended.
Zone II presentation
by Cindy Brown.
Nora Howard, photographer.
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During the year, individual members from the Pasadena GC (CA), Hartford GC
(CT), Somerset Hills GC (NJ), and Portland GC (OR) toured the archives.
Smithsonian Gardens’ 6th Annual Garden Fest
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AAG staff developed an exhibit for Smithsonian Gardens’ daylong Garden Fest celebration in May that highlighted community gardens.
We had a number of vegetables—ordinary and exotic—on hand to get
visitors talking about their own garden stories.
AAG’s Garden Fest display showcased
a number of images of community gardens
from the GCA Collection.
AAG Budget
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AAG’s baseline funding comes out of SG’s Horticulture Collections Management and Education branch’s annual budget. The following is a rough breakdown of spending by AAG of its baseline funding in
2012*:
Intern stipends
Attending/hosting GHD Committee meetings
Part-time archival contractor
Supplies, services, and training
$13,045
$ 9,785
$ 6,720
$ 4,765
TOTAL
$34,315
*This breakdown does not include staff salaries and benefits
The following is a breakdown of additional outside funding secured by AAG in 2012.
Funding from the GCA Scholarship Committee to
partially fund two GHD/AAG Interns
Funding from the Katzenberger Foundation to host an
AAG intern
Donations and honorariums
$ 6,200
TOTAL
$11,875
$ 5,000
$
675
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List of Gardens added to the Garden Club of America Collection
at the Archives of American Gardens in 2012
AAG
State
City
Garden #
AL035
AL
Birmingham
CA260
CA
Pasadena
CA469
CA
CA470
CT039
CT118
CT338
CT549
CT550
CT551
CA
CT
CT
CT
CT
CT
CT
Santa Barbara
[Montecito]
Atherton
Litchfield
West Hartford
New Haven
Litchfield
Avon
Litchfield
DE047
FL175
FL176
GA194
DE
FL
FL
GA
Greenville
Palm Beach
Jacksonville
Atlanta
HI038
HI039
IA021
IN043
LA060
HI
HI
IA
IN
LA
Honolulu
Honolulu
Clive
Indianapolis
New Orleans
MA390
ME136
MA
ME
MI084
MO081
MS043
NH081
NH083
NJ530
NJ541
NY899
MI
MO
MS
NH
NH
NJ
NJ
NY
Nantucket
Northeast
Harbor
Bay City
Kansas City
Merigold
Lyme
Dublin
Madison
Madison
Oyster Bay
Garden
Boxwood
Erskine Garden, The Paul
and Georgianne
Van Horne Garden
Camellia Hedges
Breeze Hill Farm
Hyland-Schutz Garden
Ilmanen, Home of Edith H.
Westview Farm
Atkinson's Garden, Peg
Baby Boomer Retirement
Garden
Dugdale Garden
Villa Filipponi
Hicks Garden
Turner Lynch Garden
GCA Club
Red Mountain GC
Pasadena GC
GC of Santa Barbara
Woodside-Atherton GC
Litchfield GC
GC of Hartford
GC of New Haven
Litchfield GC
GC of Hartford
Litchfield GC
GC of Wilmington
GC of Palm Beach
Late Bloomers GC
Peachtree GC & Cherokee
GC
Leahi
GC of Honolulu
Dowsett Garden
GC of Honolulu
Shetland Run
Des Moines Founders GC
Hydrangea House
Indianapolis GC
Friersons' Hidden Retreat, New Orleans Town
The
Gardeners
Grey Gardens
Nantucket GC
"Breezes" Pergola Garden GC of Mt. Desert
The Curtiss House Gardens Bay City GC
The Weatherly Garden
Westport GC
McCartys Pottery
Greenville GC
Blodgett’s Garden
Conn. Valley GC
Tiadnock
GC of Dublin
Secret Garden, The
GC of Madison
Kerkeslager Gardens
GC of Madison
Nouri Garden
North Country GC
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AAG
Garden #
NY900
PA405
PA689
PA690
PA693
NY
PA
PA
PA
PA
PA695
PA696
PA698
RI174
TN008
TN078
TN079
TN081
TX046
TX060
TX074
TX100
TX101
TX102
TX103
VA176
VA404
WI040
WI041
PA
PA
PA
RI
TN
TN
TN
TN
TX
TX
TX
TX
TX
TX
TX
VA
VA
WI
WI
State
City
Oyster Bay Cove
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Erie
Garden
Hilliard Garden
Hartwood County Park
La Petite Maison
Reverie
World War II Memorial
Garden
Pittsburgh
Hilltop Hideaway
Fairview
Frenzel Garden, The
Sewickley
Tullymore
Newport
Whim, The
Memphis
Buxton Garden
Memphis
Charnwood
Memphis
Zanone Garden, Irwin L.
Memphis
Buzzy's Surprise Garden
Houston
Schlumberger Garden
Dallas
Crow Garden, Harlan
Dallas
Sewell Garden
Dallas
Holland Garden
Dallas
Maclay Garden
Dallas
Mockingbird Farms
Dallas
Neels Garden
Middleburg
Homewood
Orange
Windholme Farm
Sheboygan Falls Homewood
River Hills
Chimneys, The
GCA Club
North Country GC
GC of Allegheny County
GC of Allegheny County
GC of Allegheny County
Carrie T. Watson GC
GC of Allegheny County
Carrie T. Watson GC
GC of Allegheny County
Newport GC
Little GC of Memphis
Memphis GC
Memphis GC
Little GC of Memphis
GC of Houston
Founders GC of Dallas
Founders GC of Dallas
Founders GC of Dallas
Founders GC of Dallas
Founders GC of Dallas
Founders GC of Dallas
Fauquier & Loudon GC
Dolley Madison GC
Town & Country GC
Green Tree GC
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