First Families and everything garden and gardening-related/
Living in the DC area, it's been fun to blog about the White House gardens, a topic that now has its own category. I've included other presidential gardens, like the [...]
I share everyone's appreciation for Dale Haney, superintendent of the White House grounds, now retiring after 50 years working on that hallowed landscape (and walking some famous dogs, too). So [...]
The last time I blogged about a visit to the White House Gardens was in 2010 ( photos here) and my last visit was in 2016, when I took the [...]
First, this post about the redesign of the Rose Garden during the previous administration is not political - I promise. I've already supported the Rose Garden upgrade and called the [...]
From the whphotooffice Instagram account: "First Lady Jill Biden participates in an Arbor Day tree planting ceremony Friday, April 30, 2021, on the North Lawn of the White House. [...]
Has this petition to "Restore Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden" come across your feed yet? It makes this pitch: In 1961 President and Mrs. Kennedy had just returned from a state [...]
I'm blaming Twitter. My feed of pundits and reporters pointed me to this clip on Newsmax, a channel I've never dared look at. It shows a host mocking Joe Biden [...]
Thanks to the official White House Facebook page, we're seeing glimpses of spring flowers on the grounds, with these magnolia shots posted March 21 and today. Nice! Please post more! [...]
In what her office called "The first lady’s surprise Valentine messages to the country, Valentine's Day candies with messages of love and healing were installed overnight, surprising the President. They [...]
Continuing our reporting on garden-related news about the First Family, something new has turned up about gardens the Bidens may have created or cared. Bidens Added Family Heritage Garden at [...]
Post-election, I wrote "First Lady Jill Biden and the White House Gardens," listing everything my research unearthed about Dr. Biden as a gardener or garden-lover, and speculating on whether she [...]
Now that almost everyone concedes that the Bidens will be moving into the White House soon (hopefully, soon enough!), local garden writers like me are pondering what admittedly is the [...]
