Washington Winter Show 2020

The Mount Vernon Symposium May 29-31, 2020 mountvernon.org/mvsymposium “Under My Vine & Fig Tree” GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES IN THE AGE OF WASHINGTON AND NOW 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. Samuel Vaughan, a wealthy merchant and friend of George Washington, visited Mount Vernon in 1787 where he advised on the latest English ideas on landscape design and made this detailed sketch of the estate in his journal; and George Washington (detail), oil on canvas, by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1798 (MVLA).