In both flowering gardens, green patterns are an essential architecture or bone structure rather than a complex decoration for jewelery. Gray leaf plants, boxwoods of different textures, feel their appearance, but not in flower beds. Herbs are – Thyme, Marjoram, Henna, Taragon, Tulsi, and Chivs – among the flowers. Nothing is on a very grand scale.
In each of the two gardens, two rows of five less growing trees rise from beds that flank a rectangular central lawn. Crab apple trees were chosen for rose garden; Topper Holise for the East Garden for the people used at the Governor Palace in Williamsburg.
In the spring, the tulip beds in the rose garden push with the grape boundary, like a wide blue ribbon. In summer, heliotrop takes its place as a range for roses. Old -fashioned striped roses; White roses with Ragosa, Rambalr, moss, and fluoribunda roses, as well as green touch “John F. Kennedy,” and The Rose, a game of “Peace”, called “Speaker Sam”. In the autumn, there is thick-grown chrysanthemum between the late roses, and at the end of the garden, near the South Portico, the scarlet berries of a Washington Hothorn Flame in the sun.
After the completion of the Rose Garden, a replica of the East Garden began. Its eighteen classes are fragrant in spring with flower beds, junkols, hycinth, Narsisi and Virginia Blueles. Here too, there are gray leaf plants, formal patterns and herbs among the summer flowers-Dark-Blue and Light-Neela Petunis, Red Dectus (A favorite flower of Mrs. Kennedy), blue Salvia Pichri and white ChairmanLater there are single blue esters between chrysanthemum, including small “king” chrysanthemies, which have small dark-red, yellow-centered flowers.
A Japanese maple tree at the White House grounds at Washington DC, was planted by First Lady Frances Folsem Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland. Yellow flowers and large water fountains on the south lawn can be seen in the background.Horst p. Photographed by Horst. CirculationFebruary 1967