Ridgefield -- Garden of Ideas
Object Details
- General
- Established in 1987, this eight-acre site is both a private garden and a specialty nursery. It contains a fine collection of both woody and herbaceous ornamental plants, planted along a stunning natural marsh filled with wild rice. The property contains a large raised-bed vegetable garden, hand-built cedar structures, whimsical statuary, water features, unusual annuals, and lots of birds and bugs.
- Landscape architect
- Svendsen and Keller
- Collection Photographer
- Jeruss, Irene
- Place
- Garden of Ideas (Ridgefield, Connecticut)
- United States of America -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Ridgefield
- Topic
- Gardens -- Connecticut -- Ridgefield
- Outdoor Sculpture
- Garden ornaments and furniture
- Pedestals
- Container gardening
- Geraniums
- Lawns
- Flower beds
- Benches
- Garden borders
- Dahlias
- Ornamental grasses
- Caladium
- Gardening in the shade
- Climbing plants
- Ipomoea
- Ricinus
- Rudbeckia
- Hosta
- Brunnera
- Columbines
- Adirondack chairs
- Garden walks
- Rills
- Streams
- Japanese maple
- Stairs
- Gates
- Arbors
- Walls
- Ferns
- Landscape architect
- Svendsen and Keller
- See more items in
- Irene Jeruss garden photography collection
- Irene Jeruss garden photography collection / Garden Images / Connecticut
- Extent
- 22 Slides (photographs)
- Date
- 1999-2000
- Container
- Box 1
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Gardens
- Identifier
- AAG.JER, File CT303_JER
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides
- Slides (photographs)
- Collection Citation
- Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Irene Jeruss Garden Photography Collection
- Collection Rights
- Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
- Bibliography
- Garden has been featured in Marjorie Owens, "Family Roots," The News-Times, August 17, 1997.Garden has been featured in William Bryant Logan, "Understory," Garden Design, August-September 1997, pp. 60-67.Garden has been featured in Gerri Lewis, "A Garden of Ideas," Arts & Leisure [special section of The Ridgefield Press, The Wilton Bulletin, The Redding Pilot, The Weston Forum in Conn.; and The Lewisboro Ledger in N. Y.], August 1, 1996.Garden has been featured in Tovah Martin, "A Ridgefield Gardener and His Muses," The Fairfield County Times Monthly, March 1997, pp. 21-22.Garden has been featured in Joseph Keller, "Gardening in Harmony with Nature," Fine Gardening, No. 70 (December 1999), pp. 40-45.
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to collection by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1654277100508-1654277101092-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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