Dumbarton Oaks: Washington, D.C.

Dumbarton Oaks: Washington, D.C.

Located in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown, Dumbarton Oaks was the home of diplomat Robert Woods Bliss Robert Woods Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss Mildred Barnes Bliss . They acquired the 54-acre property in 1920 and hired landscape designer Beatrix Farrand to implement their vision of privately landscaped grounds.

One of Mildred Barnes Bliss’ favorite parts of her property was the Rose Garden, which was geometric in design and planned in the naturalistic manner of 17th- and 18th-century English gardens. Plantings include boxwoods, wisteria, clematis and winter jasmine and, of course, roses.