First Lady Melania Trump Announces Plans to Restore and Enhance the White House Rose Garden
EVERY FIRST LASY OF THE UNITED STATES FINDWS A WAY TO LEAVE HER MARK ON THE WHITE HOUSE. FOR FIRST LADY MICGHELLE OBAMA IT WAS A GARDEN. FOR HER SUCCESSOR, FIRST LADY MELANIE TRUMP, IT WILL BE A RESTORED ROSE GARDEN. THE ICONIC SPACE HAS BEEN UNTOUCHED SINCE THE KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION. (The WHite House): First Lady Melania Trump is pleased to announce a significant renewal of the White House Rose Garden this summer. The restoration of this historic garden is a much-anticipated project meant to improve one of the most iconic locations on the White House grounds. The final design plan is the result of a collaboration by two premier landscape architecture firms, Perry Guillot, Inc and Oehme, van Sweden & Associates/OvS. The plan will provide a renewal of the design first implemented by Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon during the Kennedy Administration, which has been the guiding blueprint for the Rose Garden since that installation in 1962. Decades of use and necess...