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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- SICG_170628_008.JPG: COMMON GROUND
Our American Garden
Many peoples and their plants have left a mark on the American landscape. Our gardens include plants that were found here, brought from other countries, or passed down by seed or shared with neighbors. These plants now represent a shared American heritage. As natives and newcomers interact, we all help develop gardens that are part of our homes, communities, and identities.
This garden borders the museum, sharing stories of memory, healing, discovery, and ingenuity. What we choose to plant is an expression of what we value and who we are.
Did you know?
You can visit the second floor of the museum's west wing for more stories on the nation we build together.
- SICG_170628_086.JPG: COMMON GROUND
Our American Garden
Many peoples and their plants have left a mark on the American landscape. Our gardens include plants that were found here, brought from other countries, or passed down by seed or shared with neighbors. These plants now represent a shared American heritage. As natives and newcomers interact, we all help develop gardens that are part of our homes, communities, and identities.
This garden borders the museum, sharing stories of memory, healing, discovery, and ingenuity. What we choose to plant is an expression of what we value and who we are.
Did you know?
You can visit the second floor of the museum's west wing for more stories on the nation we build together.
- SICG_170628_119.JPG: DISCOVERY
Many cultures contributed to America's landscape. Each brought insights as people shared new and unfamiliar plants and their uses. Explorers, botanists, horticulturists, and home gardeners continue to introduce new plants to American gardens.
Did you know?
Plants have traveled just as people have. They have their own methods of dispersal -- wind, water, propulsion. Many plants are moved by people who find them useful. What plants have traveled with your family?
- SICG_170628_161.JPG: HEALING
Many plants have a history of providing comfort, restoration, and inspiration. Different communities found medicinal purposes for plants and passed down knowledge from generation to generation. People sought answers for common ailments, spiritual needs, and general health. As communities met on American soil, they shared this knowledge. Healing the spirit through beauty and escape, people have used ornamental plants to enhance homes, parks, public spaces, cemetaries, and places of significance. Other plants have been used to heal the land itself.
Did you know?
Herbal remedies remain popular today. However, medicinal plants can be toxic if used incorrectly, making helpful plants harmful. What plants are used for healing in your culture?
- SICG_170628_368.JPG: MEMORY
Native communities and newcomers have shared plants and adapted them for their own personal use. Many plants native to the Americas have been used for food and fiber and honored as elements of cultural heritage. People brought plants as heirlooms to evoke memories and to continue traditions.
Did you know?
Often a fragrance can impact your strong sense of smell and bring back memories. The scent may be of a favorite dish or of the trees outside a relative's house. What fragrant plants remind you of your heritage?
- SICG_170628_405.JPG: INGENUITY
Clever gardeners used plants to overcome obstacles, and found solutions to allow desired plants to thrive.
Whether a lack of resources or an abundance of opportunity, many minds came together to create networks and industries to serve the public. Experimentation, invention, and a free economy provides a variety of opportunities to use plants today.
Did you know?
Plants make up a good deal of our clothing, from the fiber to the dye to the rubber of our shoe soles. How many plants are you wearing?
- Description of Subject Matter: Common Ground: Our American Garden
June 28, 2017 – Permanent
Grounds of the National Museum of American History
Common Ground: Our American Garden shares the stories of plants and how they are important to people in this country. Americans in history and Americans today have grown flowers and herbs as a way of honoring memory, providing healing, promoting discovery and inspiring Ingenuity.
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