Explore Our Collections

The care and keeping of historical information is essential to ensuring an informed, vibrant future. The Garden Club of America understands this inherent value of collecting and archiving.

Through GCA collections we are preserving innovative and inspiring words of horticulturalists and gardeners, remarkable illustrative studies of botanical specimens, and rare photographic records of ephemeral gardens of all kinds.

Rare Book Collection

Housed at the New York Botanical Gardens’ LuEsther T. Mertz Library, the GCA’s collection contains over 700 donated titles available for research and discovery.

Collection of Documented Gardens

The GCA’s collection at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Gardens includes photographic and written documentation cataloging thousands of American gardens.
Photo of “Olmsted Design #4 Orchestration of Use” 1933 Glass Slide by Thornewood (Tacoma, WA)