Rapidan -- Summer Duck Wood

Object Details

General: "The property is 1600 acre hunting park/wildlife area managed with environmentally sound techniques. Gardens include the south facing courtyard of mixed borders, "morning" garden of granite beds, a potager with a tunnel, shower garden with an outdoor shower shaped into a rotunda of hornbeam and a series of spaces with a Chinese-Ming period stone pieces."; Persons associated with the property include: Guy Lewis (former owner); Edaw (landscape architecture firm); Roger Courteney (landscape architect for one garden).; Persons associated with the property include: Guy Lewis (former owner); Edaw, Roger Courtney, (landscape architect for one garden).

Place: Summer Duck Wood (Rapidan, Va.); United States of America -- Virginia -- Culpeper County -- Rapidan

See more items in: The Garden Club of America collection; The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Gardens / Virginia

Sponsor: A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Custodial History: The Dolley Madison Garden Club facilitated the submission of this garden's documentation.

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

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Related Materials: Summer Duck Wood related holdings consist of 1 folder (10 digital images)