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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 [...]
White House Lawn In our continuing effort to keep you informed about the White House grounds - not because those 17 acres are important in the grand scheme, but because [...]
The announcement from the office of Melania Trump that the Rose Garden is getting an upgrade next month came at the worst possible time. It also came from one of [...]
For the first time ever, the public is able to see a private scrapbook about the Kennedy Rose Garden created by Jackie Kennedy herself in 1966 as a gift to [...]
First there was news that head White House floral designer Laura Dowling had left her job a few weeks ago, with no fanfare, and no one knew why. There were [...]
From a recent visitor to the White House, to be more precise. Yes, that’s me standing beneath the presidential seal (major photo-op), and on the left is the grand north [...]
