By Joanne Barron

Giovanni Macchione simply smiled and shrugged his shoulders when asked what he thinks about his Italian garden being included in the Smithsonian Institute's Archives of American Gardens. He said he gardens just to pass the time and because he enjoys it.

"I like to be outside doing this and that better than inside with the TV. People stop by all the time and ask me, 'What's this? What's that?' They stay and stay and talk for an hour," he said with a chuckle. Working together to complete and submit information to the Smithsonian are Mary Menitti, founder of the Italian Garden Project that provides garden tours and educational programs, and Village Garden Club Garden History and Design Committee members, chairwoman Cathy Snyder, photographer Alisa Lenhardt, Melissa Sanflippo and Lisa Burrows.

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