About Community of Gardens
Growing garden history through your images, stories, & exhibits
Welcome to Community of Gardens, a digital archive hosted by Smithsonian Gardens in partnership with our Archives of American Gardens and created by YOU. By contributing images, videos, and stories to this website, your participation will help others to better understand the meaning and value of gardens to American life – today and in the future. Community of Gardens is the Smithsonian’s digital home for sharing and preserving the stories of gardens and the gardeners who make them grow.
Random Gardens
Memories of World War II
Collecting Milkweed Pods During World War IIWe lived in a small, prosperous town in the middle of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, a very fertile valley, good for growing fruits and vegetables, still…
Harvest Fun
This year I grew cucumbers in my backyard garden. I put in three slicing cucumber plants and three pickling cucumbers. I found that it can be easy to miss seeing the lighter-colored pickling cukes…
The Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden
Haja: My name is Haja Worley. I am the husband of Cindy Nibbelink Worley. I’m from Patterson, New Jersey by way of North Carolina. Growing up, my parents had a garden in the backyard. I'm sure the…
Featured Garden
The Airport Garden Group
Amelia Island (Florida) is widely known as an upscale resort and tourist destination, where oceanfront building lots can cost $1 million or more. This is hardly the place to find a Community Garden…