Photo credits

Parcel & Root only uses images that are CC0 or in the public domain, among them photographs by US federal agencies and seed catalogs printed more than a hundred years ago. None of them legally needs a credit. We give one anyway, under each image and on this page, with a link back to where the file is kept, sorted by who made it.

Public agencies and extension services

• US Department of Energy — Backyard with raised beds behind a city house, for Renting a house with a garden. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: public domain.
• US Forest Service, Intermountain Region — Planting bare-root shrubs on a restoration site, for Bare-root plants by mail. Kept at Flickr; status: public domain.
• NPS / Youth Conservation Corps, Joshua Tree National Park — Potted plants at a native plant nursery, Joshua Tree National Park, for Choosing a mail-order nursery. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: public domain.
• Bruce Dupree, Alabama Extension — Leafy greens in raised beds, for Planning a vegetable garden. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• US Department of Agriculture; scan by the US National Archives — USDA Congressional seed distribution envelope for 'Early Blood Turnip' beet, for Glossary of catalog terms. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: public domain.
• Bruce Dupree, Alabama Extension — Rows of strawberry plants, for Fruit trees and berries by mail. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• USDA Agricultural Research Service and Oregon State University — USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, 2012 edition, for Hardiness zones and shipping seasons. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: public domain.

Seed companies of a century ago

• C. H. Lippincott (publisher) — C. H. Lippincott flower seed catalog cover, Minneapolis, 1908, for How to read a seed catalog. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: public domain.
• Germain Seed and Plant Company (publisher) — Germain Seed & Plant Co. catalog cover, Los Angeles, 1912, for Shopper tips for buying plants by mail. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: public domain.
• Vaughan's Seed Store (publisher) — Vaughan's Seed Store catalog cover, Chicago, 1918, for Choosing and requesting garden catalogs. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: public domain.

Independent photographers

• Markus Spiske — Seedlings in a seed tray, for the home page. Kept at Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• Bicanski — 'Early Mohawk' heirloom bean seed, for Seed saving basics. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• Amada44 — A tulip bulb with roots and shoot, for Ordering bulbs by mail. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: public domain.
• Roderico Y. Díaz — Flint corn drying, for How long seeds last. Kept at Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• Thomas Verbruggen — Inside an old greenhouse, for Plants and seeds across borders. Kept at Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• Lendskaip — Apple orchard in blossom, Bemmel, Netherlands, for Fruit trees and berries by mail. Kept at Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• Daniel Hjalmarsson — Seedlings in fibre pots, for Plugs, liners and potted plants. Kept at Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• Gabriel Jimenez — Hands holding garden soil, for When your plants arrive. Kept at Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• Francesco Gallarotti — Young seedlings, for Starting seeds indoors. Kept at Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• Ashley Van Dyke — Succulents in pots, for Small-space gardening by mail. Kept at Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.
• Elaine Casap — A bowl of cherry tomatoes, for Planning a vegetable garden. Kept at Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons; status: CC0.

Notes

We resized each image, cropped it to 3:2 and saved it as WebP, without any further retouching. The old catalog covers are here to show how mail-order gardening used to look; the firms printed on them have nothing to do with Parcel & Root. Neither do any people caught in a photograph, nor the topics of the guides those photographs accompany. Visible brand names stay with their owners.

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