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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 25, 2010
Caption: The Hermitage Garden
Additional Description: One of the earliest ornamental plants brought to the southern United States, crepe myrtles line the walk in the Hermitage garden. Because the Jackson’s left very few list of their garden plants, Hermitage gardeners now simply plant flowers, vines and shrubs available in the United State before the Civil War. This means you won't find modern hybrids such as tea roses or more recently introduced plants such as impatiens here.

Archeology had demonstrated one of the major changes in the garden-over 150 years of adding soil has raised the height of the paths and beds almost six inches. Paths have been realigned as well.
Submitted: February 8, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p191964
File Size: 0.322 Megabytes

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