They are the sole witnesses to some of the nation's greatest people and most significant moments, some are hundreds of years old - the Horse Chestnut Tree that shaded Susan B. Anthony in the late 19th century or Oregon's Pow-Wow Big Leaf Maple, a traditional meeting place for the Clackamas Indians.

These images are among the Cultural Landscape Foundation's 2007 Landslide selection, Heroes of Horticulture, in a signboard exhibition of original photography. The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Garden Design magazine have partnered with George Eastman House International Museum of Photography to create this amazing exhibit. The exhibit is on loan from Jungle Gardens Inc. and will be on display through to March 3 at the Parkview Library, 500 Grand Pre Boulevard in New Iberia.

The exhibit features photographs from the Bamboo Collection of Jungle Gardens in Avery Island. It also displays photographs of significant landscapes at risk of being lost from throughout the nation. The signboard exhibit provides the history of each horticultural specimen, the threat, information on how to support the feature and associated historic and current photographs of each resource.

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For more information,e call the library at 364-7024 or visit the website, www.tclf.org.