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March 5, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HGTV to Feature Smith Campus
as a "Great American Garden" on March 15
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.--The gardens and
plant collections of Smith College will be featured on HGTV's
"Great American Gardens," in a segment airing 3 - 3:30
p.m. EST, Saturday, March 15.
"Great American Gardens," hosted by Tricia Springer,
tours America's loveliest public gardens, focusing on the highlights
of three gardens in each episode. The series focuses primarily
on mid-sized and large botanic gardens across America. Interviews
with gardeners, botanists and historians help reveal the story
these gardens have to tell.
Smith's campus was originally planned and planted over 100 years
ago as a botanic garden and arboretum, designed by the landscape
architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted. The college's Botanic
Garden encompasses the 125 contiguous acres of the campus; the
Lyman Conservatory, with 12,000 square feet under glass; and
a variety of specialty gardens. The garden is open to the public
and contains more than 7,000 labeled and mapped plants. Adjacent
to the Lyman Conservatory are the rock garden, one of the oldest
in America, and the systematics garden, in which plants are arranged
by family. Other gardens around the campus include a Japanese
viewing pavilion, a wildflower and woodland garden, an herb garden,
a terraced rose garden and a formal knot and gazebo garden.
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