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American women makeover estate gardens
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A hand-tinted 1922 photograph shows the gardener for the estate of James and Elizabeth Metcalfe in Bedford Hills, New York. It was taken by photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston and is included in the exhibition, "Groundbreakers: Great American Gardens and The Women Who Designed Them."
NEW YORK — Occasionally, landscape gardening goes well beyond flowers and shrubbery to encompass questions of national identity, culture, even social change. The era from 1900 to 1930 in America was one of those times, thanks to several enterprising and unsung women. Well before American women could vote, these college-educated few rose to the pinnacle of their fields as garden designers, writers and photographers.