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Victory Garden

- Permanent (seasonal)

Museum: Smithsonian Gardens

Sponsor: Smithsonian Gardens

Location: New Location: Outdoors; east side of American History Museum, near Constitution Ave. & 12th St., NW

The Victory Garden is a re-created World War II-era garden and features "heirloom" vegetable and flower species available to gardeners through the 1940s. Throughout the war years, millions of victory gardens in all shapes and sizes -- from window boxes to community plots -- produced abundant food for the folks at home. The plantings in this re-created garden are rotated seasonally.

Related publication: A Guide to Smithsonian Gardens

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