First Lady Melania Trump Announces Plans to Restore and Enhance the White House Rose Garden

whitehouse.gov ^ | July 27, 2020 | White House, First Lady Melania Trump

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First Lady Melania Trump is pleased to announce a significant renewal of the White House Rose Garden this summer.

The restoration of this historic garden is a much-anticipated project meant to improve one of the most iconic locations on the White House grounds. The final design plan is the result of a collaboration by two premier landscape architecture firms, Perry Guillot, Inc and Oehme, van Sweden & Associates/OvS.

The plan will provide a renewal of the design first implemented by Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon during the Kennedy Administration, which has been the guiding blueprint for the Rose Garden since that installation in 1962. Decades of use and necessary changes made to support the modern presidency have taken a toll on the garden and have made it more difficult to appreciate the elegant symmetry of the Mellon plan.

The refreshment of the Rose Garden will return it to its original ‘62 footprint and help ensure it will thrive with improved infrastructure, better drainage, and a healthier environment for plantings that reduce the risk of leaf blight. In addition, the plans include improved Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility, utilities, and support for audiovisual and broadcasting needs that will allow for the continued enjoyment of the garden’s natural beauty and storied history.

“The very act of planting a garden involves hard work and hope in the possibility of a bright future,” said First Lady Melania Trump. “Preserving the history and beauty of the White House and its grounds is a testament to our nation’s commitment to the care of this landscape and our dedication to American ideals, safeguarding them for our children and their children for generations to come.”

The plan for renewal went through the approval process of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House (CPWH) and aligned with the recommendations of their sub-committee, Committee for the Preservation of the White House Garden (CPWHG). As the honorary chairwoman of CPWH, the First Lady established CPWHG to ensure the standards of the Rose Garden are maintained and ensure scholarship and research went into its renewal. The project is supported by the National Park Service, who has cared for the White House and its grounds since 1933, and funded with private donations.

Please click HERE to view the full Rose Garden landscape report.

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[Artcore]

Oh goody!

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, I’m sure this garden design all just fine when Camelot was in session and the Kennedy’s lived in the White House. But now the design is racist.

[pepsi_junkie]

No offense to the First Lady but honestly I think that the Rose Garden as it exists today seems nice enough. You can forsee that this will be flipped into a 'Trump is fiddling while Rome burns' thing.

Timing is just terrible.

[mass55th]

And Newsweek is asking if it will be done with taxpayer money. Nobody complained when Moochie dug up the lawn to put her garden in, and nobody complained when she had 24 personal aides, while Melania has just a few. That’s plenty of savings right there to pay for a redo of the Rose Garden. I did a search, and the Rose Garden was put in my Woodrow Wilson’s wife in 1913.

[Sacajaweau]

ALL Gardens need to be improved occasionally.

Good for her and her desire to make something better.

[mass55th]

People have been bitching about everything Republicans do for decades. They bitched about Mary Lincoln’s fixing up the White House during the Civil War. She has 2-3 f’in aids versus 24 for Moochie and 19 for Hillary. Melania has saved the taxpayers thousands of dollars, so the liberals can just get over it, and you realize that no matter what the Trumps do, the left will make something out of it. Would you rather they stop doing everything?

[Steely Tom]

Didn’t Michelle bury some large metal object in the garden?

[Ticonderoga34]

Sounds to me like that First Lady Melania is planning on living in the White House awhile.

[OrangeHoof]

Maybe, in a gesture of bipartisanship, she should ask Joe Biden to provide the manure.

[lee martell]

Is this sort of thing usually announced to the press?
Maybe is always has been, and I wasn’t paying attention.

[Yo-Yo]

Did they ever fix the damages caused by Mooschelle’s vegetable garden?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Good. But the leftist will hate it and try to destroy it just because.

[chickenlips]

As long as she doesn’t plant any Chinese seeds sent to the White House, I’m OK with a little redesign.

[GnuThere]

That’s quite a report.
Leave it to highly paid consultants to generate a 241 page report about a garden.
It does have some interesting historical pics and an inventory of all the rose and tulip species.

[Bonemaker]

I hope she plants over Michelle’s faux garden next year.

[EinNYC]

Maybe, in a gesture of bipartisanship, she should ask Joe Biden to provide the manure.

I think using Joe Biden as compost for the garden would be the best use for him. I really look forward to seeing the complete garden, being an avid gardener myself.

[rlmorel]

Think about it, though. When wouldn’t they do that? Hell, if Trump eats a ham sandwich, they talk about the poor example he is setting for people’s health, the concept of killing something to eat it, the pollution pig farms cause, and the effect on the environment of livestock.

If he didn’t eat a ham sandwich, they would carp about how he is ruining the pork industry by not consuming their products, about how the bread industry needs a better example from the President about food groups, etc.

If they spend their time thinking about the optics of everything, real or imagined, they might as well just pack and leave.

I like it that they don’t give a damn in general, confront and combat the stupidity head on, or just flip them the bird.

[polymuser]

Nice!

White roses, white lilies, white daisies, baby’s breath, white orchids, white mums, white tulips, white gardenias, white hibiscus...

[pepsi_junkie]

Well, my reaction to spending money on beautifying the Rose Garden (which seems plenty nicely maintained already) when the government is broke, we’re likely going to be facing real economic tough times in the immediate future and are in the middle of a cold war with China is that it’s simply a misguided priority. I just don’t feel like it’s something important to do at this time, truth be told. That’s my opinion, yours may differ.