Sample Garden Preservation Documents

Garden preservation involves a lot of planning  and organizing. The many individual steps include definition of an organizational vision, assessment of the feasibility of preserving an individual garden, analytical cultural landscape reports, and strategic plans to orchestrate administration, fundraising, budgeting, and staffing.

Here are a few documents that may be useful to others working to preserve gardens. Further examples are available in our preservation handbook, Taking a Garden Public.

Sample vision statements

Chase Garden Vision Statement

Pearl Fryar Garden Vision Statement 

Peckerwood Garden Vision Statement

Working case studies

The Ruth Bancroft Garden Case Study

The Fells Case Study

Cultural landscape reports

Cultural Landscape Inventory, Alcatraz Island National Historic Landmark

Cultural Landscape Report, Lord & Schryver Conservancy