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Melania Trump’s renovation of the White Home Rose Backyard

Did Melania Trump dig up the White Home Rose Backyard planted by Jackie Kennedy?

Social media posts have claimed that First Woman Melania Trump “ruined” the White House Rose Garden by eradicating historic roses and “cherry” timber from the area in a current renovation.

The firestorm of criticism got here after the newly revamped backyard was revealed to the press final week.

 

I am actually pissed concerning the Rose Backyard. It is a minor factor, I do know, however it’s our home not Melania’s and the backyard was designed by Jackie Kennedy and was nonetheless lovely.

She ruined it.

— Fireplace Trump – 65 Days ?? (@Leslieoo7) August 22, 2020

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The well-known backyard borders the Oval Workplace and the West Wing of the White Home and is usually used for media occasions and receptions.

 

Excited to honor historical past & have fun the long run in our lovely @WhiteHouse Rose Backyard this night. Thanks to all who helped renew this iconic & really beautiful area. pic.twitter.com/ggiqLkdGbw

— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) August 22, 2020

The primary backyard within the area was first constructed throughout the 1902 Roosevelt renovation on the suggestion of First Woman Edith Roosevelt and was primarily based on a conventional 18th century American backyard. In 1913, First Woman Ellen Wilson changed the colonial-style backyard with a proper rose backyard.

The present design dates again to the Kennedy Administration, when Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon redesigned the area to create an outlined central garden bordered by flower beds, hedges, and crab apple timber – not cherry trees.

Earlier than-and-after photographs of the most recent renovation now reveals much less colourful blooms within the flower beds and the crab apple timber gone.

 

Earlier than and after pictures of newly renovated White Home Rose Backyard:
courtesy #Getty and @marycjordan pic.twitter.com/w6bzoNHMjC

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 22, 2020

One meme posted to Fb claims that “Melania dug up the WH Rose Backyard, eradicating roses from each First Woman since 1913.”

According to Snopes, it isn’t true that the backyard contained roses planted by each first girl since 1913. The web site additionally confirms that the crab apple timber eliminated within the current renovation weren’t the identical timber as those initially planted within the backyard throughout the Kennedy administration.

Based on panorama historian Marta McDowell, the creator of “All of the Presidents’ Gardens,” the crab apple timber have already been changed 3 times because the unique planting within the Sixties.

 

Melania Trump destroyed Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Backyard. Take into consideration that. Does it matter a lot? No. However it positive is emblematic of whose these individuals are.

— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) August 22, 2020

McDowell additionally means that the timber had been eliminated as a result of they created an excessive amount of shade for the roses.

“If you’d like roses, you possibly can’t develop them within the shade,” she stated.

 

You ruined it! It is now chilly and medical. Your try to 1 up Jackie Kennedy is an epic fail. Who chops down timber???

— T-Minus 67 #RidenwithBiden? (@craydaysinusa) August 22, 2020

(The ten timber faraway from the backyard this 12 months have been positioned within the White Home greenhouse and can reportedly be replanted elsewhere on the grounds.)

McDowell stated {that a} panorama report accomplished in 2020 by the Committee for the Preservation of the White Home notes that the flowers within the backyard have regularly been eliminated and changed.

 

It is sensible that Melania would destroy Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Backyard. Jackie Kennedy was Camelot-grace, sophistication & magnificence. That was mirrored in her backyard.

Sadly, it fully clashes with apocalyptic, I’ll kill you all to save lots of myself vibe the Trumps are going for.

— Meredith Lee (@meralee727) August 22, 2020

“Is the backyard outdoors your again door the identical because it was 60 years in the past? That’s what individuals are suggesting,” stated McDowell, including, “Roses don’t stay that lengthy.”

McDowell additionally stated that it was truly U.S. President John F Kennedy who had the thought to revamp the Rose Backyard, not his spouse.

According to Architectural Digest, the2020 redesign was carried out by award-winning corporations Oehme, van Sweden and Associates and Perry Guillot Inc., beneath the path of the 14-member Committee for the Preservation of the White Home and the three-member Committee for the Preservation of the White Home Grounds, in addition to 10 exterior advisers.

Read More: Irish designer says Melania Trump is as glamorous as Jackie O

Melanie Trump has stated that the 2020 redesign “returned the backyard to its unique 1962 blueprint.”

The renovation has additionally improved accessibility beneath the People with Disabilities Act.

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