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Image of the Rose Garden prior to the 2020 renovations. [1] The West Colonnade, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Thomas Jefferson, can be seen in the background.. The White House Rose Garden is a garden bordering the Oval Office and the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., United States.
The design for the garden layout resembles the gears of a vintage watch and the theme is "The History of the Rose in America". [6] The design includes the stories of great roses such as Peace which has been the parent of many roses through hybridization, and Yellow Rose of Texas which traversed the country with early settlers of America.
A rose garden or rosarium is a garden or park, often open to the public, used to present and grow various types of garden roses, and sometimes rose species. Designs vary tremendously and roses may be displayed alongside other plants or grouped by individual variety, colour or class in rose beds.
The Garden Club worked to follow Jefferson's wishes, renovating the home and gardens according to his design. The renovations brought the life and beauty of the past back to the gardens. In addition, the Garden Club restored the cemetery of Jefferson's family, which is now owned and operated by the Monticello Association , a private lineage ...
The site of the rose garden was originally a regular public park named Linda Vista Park, opened in 1915. The conversion to a rose garden began as a project of the Oakland Businessmen's Garden Club in 1930, and the main force behind it (and the later Berkeley Rose Garden) was Dr. Charles Vernon Covell, a dentist and member of the Garden Club.
Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (née Jones; June 19, 1872 – February 28, 1959) was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect.Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House.