The Archives of American Gardens’ holdings include over 80,000 images of gardens dating from colonial times to the present. These images come from literally thousands of different sources and were not always accompanied by basic information (such as owner or location) that would identify them. Without this fundamental data, these images lose much of their informational value.

The states colored in red represent those places with unidentified gardens.

Links to images of these unidentified gardens cataloged in SIRIS can be found below. Help us capture America’s garden history before it is lost!

Contact Us! Please contact the archives staff at aag@si.edu or 202.633.5840 if you can identify any of the ‘Mystery Gardens’ currently included in the Archives of American Gardens.