{"id":2882,"date":"2016-08-10T19:09:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m.borsellolandscaping.com\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2016-08-10T19:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:09:26","slug":"presidential-gardens-washingtons-roses-obamas-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.borsellolandscaping.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/10\/presidential-gardens-washingtons-roses-obamas-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Gardens: From Washington\u2019s Roses to Obama\u2019s Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do presidents relax in their down time? Some golf. Some run. And others tend to a garden. Of course, they have a little help from landscapers<\/a> and horticulturists. Which one would you \u2018elect\u2019 as your favorite gardening-President?<\/p>\n

George Washington<\/strong>\u00a0 –\u00a0 At Mount Vernon, \u00a0the president planted so many roses that it took 12 days each June to pick the petals which his wife, Martha, distilled into rosewater.<\/p>\n

Thomas Jefferson <\/strong>\u00a0– \u00a0Despite his reputation as an impassioned horticulturist, Jefferson actually scaled back the presidential gardens, an act he felt would reinforce his ideas about small government. He cut off more than 70 acres that were part of the presidential palace, designating the area as a more democratic public common.<\/p>\n

James Madison<\/strong> \u2013 He planted the first documented presidential vegetable garden. At the time, presidents paid the expenses of feeding guests out of their own pockets. \u00a0Madison\u2019s list of seeds to purchase included several varieties of cabbages and radishes, as well as carrots, beets, parsnips, broccoli, and more.<\/p>\n

Woodrow Wilson<\/strong> – During World War I, a herd of 20 sheep kept the White House lawn closely shorn while much of the nation\u2019s workforce was off at war. Ninety-eight pounds of wool\u2014a commodity in high demand\u2014was shorn from that flock and auctioned to benefit the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n

John F. Kennedy<\/strong> – \u00a0When the Kennedys asked Bunny Mellon to re-envision the East Garden, she came up with a design inspired by a whimsical scene in Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice in Wonderland where Alice and the Queen of Hearts play croquet in a rose garden using live flamingos for mallets.<\/p>\n

George H.W. Bush<\/strong> (the first Bush)- \u00a0The presidents’ head gardener created inventive ways of keeping pests from entering the garden: fertilizer laced with Louisiana hot sauce discouraged moles and voles, and baskets of Georgia peanuts were strapped to tree trunks to distract marauding squirrels from the precisely planted tulip bulbs.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama<\/strong> – The Obamas planted a vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House. The plot provides more than 55 varieties of vegetables and fruits that are incorporated into meals made for the Obama family and guests. Another portion of the harvest is donated to the local soup kitchen and the Food Bank Organization. There are no beets because President Obama does not like them. Shhhh\u2026.. Don\u2019t tell your kids!<\/p>\n

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