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Remembering the White House Rose Garden
The White House Rose Garden by Trump
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Some of the roses of the White House Rose Garden before Trump
The photo on the left is known as the Laura Bush rose
The completed Rose Garden on June 20, 1962 on the left. John F. Kennedy Jr. in the Rose Garden, April 26 1963, on the right
A couple of other views of the Rose Garden in recent years
The Rose Garden under reconstruction outside of the Oval Office in 1961.
President Kennedy asked Rachel “Bunny” Mellon & First Lady Jackie Kennedy to redesign & improve this part of the grounds w landscape architect Perry Wheeler & White House head gardener Irwin Williams
President Kennedy asked Rachel “Bunny” Mellon & First Lady Jackie Kennedy to redesign & improve this part of the grounds w landscape architect Perry Wheeler & White House head gardener Irwin Williams
First Lady Jackie Jackie Kennedy always appreciated Mellon’s special contribution to the White House. As a Christmas gift in 1966, she presented Mellon with a green and white striped handmade scrapbook she had personally created
First Lady Jackie Kennedy with Bunny Mellon
First Lady Jackie Kennedy with Bunny Mellon
The scrapbook now resides at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, dedicated to sharing the gifts and ideas of Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. "Its mission is to support and inspire fresh thinking and bold action on the history and future of plants ..." https://www.osgf.org/
First Lady Jackie Kennedy made this scrapbook for Bunny Mellon. “I couldn’t sleep all the night that Jacqueline Kennedy gave me this wonderful scrapbook tracing the history of the gardens–the Rose Garden and the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden that I did for the White House"
The scrapbook has dried flowers, photos, sketches, plant order invoices (tulips from Viette) & notes:
"All his happiest hours in the White House were spent in his garden.”
“Those around him have learned that the way to his heart is through his garden.” https://www.gardenrant.com/2015/08/inside-the-white-house-rose-garden-memory-book.html
"All his happiest hours in the White House were spent in his garden.”
“Those around him have learned that the way to his heart is through his garden.” https://www.gardenrant.com/2015/08/inside-the-white-house-rose-garden-memory-book.html
Curious of Trump consulted with the the private, non-profit White House Historical Association, started by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961
President John F. Kennedy and Bunny Mellon planning the Rose Garden while on Cape Cod, August 1961.
Bunny Mellon's design: magnolia trees anchoring the corners, the lawn framed—as if it were a picture—with borders of trees and flowers. Two sides of the garden would feature crab-apple trees in diamond-shaped beds, surrounded by roses and perennials, with a boxwood border.
JFK's "pleasure in that garden was infinite. He loved to show the garden to visitors and it got to be a joke among the staff and Secret Service that none dared walk on the President’s grass. He was likely to poke his head out of the french door and holler ‘get off the grass!’ "
The quote is from this book and are the words of artist William Walton who was close to President John F. Kennedy & Jacqueline Kennedy. He chaired the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1963 to 1971.
Bunny Mellon : The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon
Bunny Mellon : The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon
First Lady Jackie Kennedy and Bunny Mellon in two photos and a couple of early photos of the Rose Garden
Photos of President John F. Kennedy in the Rose Garden including the iconic image of President Bill Clinton as a teenager shaking hands with President Kennedy in the Rose Garden in 1963.
Back to the changes. I have read that the trees my be replanted
Also, the concrete might have been necessary to be compliant with the American's with Disabilities Act
I think bottom line - regardless - the Trump's need to keep their hands off of our history
Also, the concrete might have been necessary to be compliant with the American's with Disabilities Act
I think bottom line - regardless - the Trump's need to keep their hands off of our history
