Big White House Flower Story
Michelle Obama's Favorite Flowers for Arrangements
This story is packed with juicy nuggets for us gardeners:
- The floral preferences of the Obamas.
- White House Floral Designer Laura Dowling's "garden" style. It's more relaxed, with lots of unexpected touches.
- The exciting Top Florist-type competition for the job.
- The role of flowers in the lives of everyone living in and visiting the White House. Like the "transition of flowers" on Inauguration Day, and a floral gift of friendship to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
- How floral design at the White House has changed over the years.
- Dowling's bio, including years in Paris and a high-powered Capitol Hill husband.
Garden designers and gardeners alike are happily predicting a similar transformation in the gardens around the White House – because it's high time. Click here to see why.
Posted by Susan Harris on July 2, 2010 at 7:08 am, in the category Green the Grounds.
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I can almost picture the bouquets in the story – they sound divine ! But I wonder … What happens to the flowers & greenery once they are removed from display ? Composted, I hope … ?
Great story Susan. Thanks for sharing it.
Just the type of the story that I dream of covering on my Garden World Report show OR, on my OWN.TV show, if selected by Oprah’s new network people. I pitched it as “Eden Makers!”
Happy 4th!
Shirley Bovshow
I don’t think you can compost commercially grown flowers because they are full of pesticides, fungicides, etc. I might be wrong though–would be interested to hear what others say about this.