The Archives of American Gardens (AAG) offers landscape designers,
historians, researchers, and garden enthusiasts access to
a collection of over 60,000 photographic images and records
documenting historic and contemporary American gardens.
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.
Smithsonian Gardens 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.
