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Archives
of American Gardens
The Archives of American Gardens (AAG) offers landscape designers,
historians, researchers, and garden enthusiasts access to
a collection of over 80,000 photographic images and records
documenting historic and contemporary American gardens. |
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Garden Furnishings and Horticultural
Artifacts Collection
Now numbering over 1,600 items, the Horticulture Services
Division's Garden Furnishings and Horticultural Artifacts
Collection spans the period from 1835 to 1955. Hundreds of
pieces are exhibited in the Smithsonian gardens and interior
plant displays in the Smithsonian museums surrounding the
National Mall in Washington, D.C. |
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Orchid
Collection
Horticulture Services Division strives to cultivate an extremely
diverse array of orchids from all over the world. With close
to 10,000 plants in the collection, new acquisitions are selected
carefully each year based on their display quality, educational
value, beauty, rarity and how they complement the present
collection. |
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Grow A Bean Buddy
Creating a living necklace is a fun and educational way to demonstrate what the requirements are for seed germination.
Click here to Grow A Bean Buddy
of your own.
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Research Resources at the Smithsonian |
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Botany and Horticulture Branch Library
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Library
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