Gardens That Shaped the US | Part 1 - Northeast

[gentle music] Broadcasting from Studio A here at Proven Winners Color Choice Shrubs, it's the Gardening Simplified Show with Stacey Hirvella, me, Rick Veaste, and our engineer and producer, Adrianna Robinson.

Well, happy birthday, America, 250 years, and what a great way to celebrate by maybe going to a great American garden.

I think that's a great way to celebrate.

Don't you?

You know, I think so too.

Yeah.

And that's why we're ripping up the script-

Yes

... from the normal Gardening Simplified Show, and we are going to devote two episodes to sharing with you the various gardens around the country that have shaped America, and that are worth your time to visit.

Mm.

Because, you know, I think that a lot of people, now, of course, not our audience because they're gardeners, um, they don't really think about visiting gardens.

Mm-hmm.

Now, if they go to Europe, they're like, "Oh, I must go to this garden and that garden," Europe is a place for gardens.

But for a lot of people, I just don't think that visiting gardens, especially if it's like a destination, they're on vacation, I don't think it enters the, the realm of possibility for a lot of people.

Yeah, and when you, you know, when you talk about that, Stacey, you think about Europe, and you have the antiquity, um, and the ruins, and all of that type of thing.

America, United States, the colonies, it was a new world, and we had to find a new way of gardening, new plants, right?

Yeah.

And John, uh, Bartram was, uh, very instrumental in that with his, uh, Bartram boxes and sending those plants off to Europe, and really creating this, this knowledge and understanding of what we had at our disposal here in the new colonies.

That's absolutely true.

And so I do wanna say, we are gonna go around and share some of...

Now, of course, we can't do all the gardens.

Well, we're gonna get mail on-

Ah, yes

... "You didn't mention the..." You know.

Right.

I know.

So but we do wanna hear from you.

Yeah.

So if there is a garden that we skip, it's not that it's not important, this is just a little sampler.

Uh, but please do leave us a comment on YouTube.

And we really, I tried to pick gardens that I think tell a story.

So of course, there's so many wonderful gardens that aren't gonna make it into these episodes, 'cause it is gonna be two parts.