Washington Winter Show 2017

“UNDER MY VINE & FIG TREE” Gardening, Landscape, and Design in the Age of Washington Join leading gardeners, historians, horticulturalists, archaeologists, and preservationists as they reconsider the importance of gardening, landscapes, and design in early America. Learn howWashington and his contemporaries shaped the natural world to achieve beauty through gardening, profited through agriculture, and conveyed civic values through landscape design—and how these historic methods remain relevant in today’s world. Revisit long-lost gardens, explore contemporary creations inspired by the past, and come face-to-face with the most authentic 18th- century plantation landscape in the United States. The Mount Vernon Symposium June 2–4, 2017 mountvernon.org/mvsymposium