Presidents' Gardens

Presidents' Gardens

by Linda Holden Hoyt
Presidents' Gardens

Presidents' Gardens

by Linda Holden Hoyt

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Overview

The White House is the most famous house in the world – yet its 18 acres of perfectly manicured grounds and magnificent gardens, much beloved by the Presidents and their families, are rarely seen by the public. This book is a horticultural celebration of all the Presidents' gardens, beginning with George Washington's beloved Mount Vernon and looking at the development of White House gardens over two centuries. Rare photographs perfectly illustrate highlights from the best of the presidential gardens, including Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden, the Roosevelt wartime White House greenhouses and Michelle Obama's sustainability-inspired vegetable garden, which now produces food that is served to the First Family. The text is peppered with lively comments and useful tips from gardeners who contributed to White House beautification projects under many different Administrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780747814078
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 08/10/2013
Series: Shire Library USA , #755
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 64
File size: 14 MB
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About the Author

Linda Hoyt grew up in Northern Virginia spending happy youthful hours at the gardens at Mount Vernon, Colonial Williamsburg and Washington, DC. She was a contributing writer in The Literary Gardener, a book about famous gardens in literature, and is currently collaborating on a comprehensive work featuring the White House gardens and gardener since 1960.

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Excerpt from Presidents' Gardens

When Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had grown up on a well-groomed river estate in the Hudson Valley of New York, came to live at the White House, he found the grounds in appalling disarray. There was a mishmash of overgrown plants, disconnected designs and a lack of any semblance of order. He enlisted the help of landscape designer Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr. to bring order and botanical integrity to the presidential grounds. Mr. Olmstead conducted a comprehensive study of the gardens and grounds and drew up a plan for improvement—simply known as the “Olmstead Plan”—a lengthy report that describes in detail the conditions of the gardens and grounds in the 1930s and makes incremental recommendations for improvement. Historical accuracy, suitability and appropriateness—hallmarks of this report—are the traditions still followed today.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
AMERICA’ S EARLY PRESIDENTS
GARDENS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
ORANGERIES AND GREENHOUSES
TWENTIETH-CENTURY GARDENS
THE GARDENERS
PLACES TO VISIT
FURTHER READING
INDEX

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