Herbert Hoover National Historic Site - Trees and Shrubs

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site by National Parks Service

The National Historic Site planted or preserved most of the trees and shrubs as part of the cultural landscape, which supports the Hoover commemoration. Placement of trees and shrubs tend to enhance the character defining features of the site. Many of the shrubs are ornamental and flower during the spring or early summer or serve as evergreen backdrops. The parkland landscape consists of open-grown trees scattered attractively through mowed areas. Two intrusions of trees enter into the prairie space. The NHS intends these areas to develop into savanna-like intrusions that project from the more heavily treed cultural landscape. A nut grove, planted on Earth Day 2000, borders the prairie on the north. Interspersing trees and prairie represents the landscape that once occurred on a larger scale in this region. The NHS has been sensitive to the use of native trees in recent plantings, outside of the most critical cultural landscape areas, such as the Hoover Gravesite.