“Planting a garden in the backyard, Woodbine, Iowa,” May 1940, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (both photos here).
In the spring of 1940, John Vachon was on assignment for the Farm Security Administration in the Midwest.
. . . I photographed Spring – clothes blowing on the wash line, kids playing marbles, women planting backyard gardens, blossoms on trees.
— John Vachon’s journal
Woodbine is a town of about 1,400 people on the Boyer River. It was named for the woodbine vine (Parthenocissus vitacea) by the wife of the first postmaster, according to the community’s website.
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Don’t know the zone, hence growth rate for pecan trees. Are they pecan trees, the large ones? Seems so.
Whatever ! Seems the neighborhood was plopped in a pecan grove, or all of the homes planted some.
Did a historic home last year, and the lot was still original 3 acres. Exactly for pleasure garden at house, potager, orchard, a few livestock. Seems studying in Europe for decades did, indeed, teach me to design historic in USA !
Love the pics, and all you find…. THANK YOU.
Garden & Be Well, XO T
I am certainly getting a different perspective on American landscaping/gardening living here in Germany.
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