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The Full Story Behind the Controversial Rose Garden Redesign

From a dearth of crab apple trees to the very issue of roses, the newly unveiled garden has sparked reactions far and wide

 

By Mitchell Owens

August 27, 2020

 

The Rose Garden photographed in spring 1963 while in full bloom.

 

The Rose Garden, photographed in spring 1963 while in full bloom. Photo: Getty Images

 

Who knew that 10 crab apple trees gone AWOL could spark nationwide outrage? But such was the case on Saturday, when first lady Melania Trump’s under-wraps renovation of the White House’s world-famous Rose Gardecreated for President John F. Kennedy in 1962by the philanthropist and garden designer Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellowas unveiled to the press, and the ethereal, pink-flowering ornamentals were nowhere to be seen. The boxwood-delineated north and south parterres of the West Wing area had also been revised: Sweeps of largely white roses trucked in, and expanses of limestone, looking raw in the bright August sunshine, framed the central lawn.

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Another early 1960s view of the garden shows the West Wing Colonnade in the background. Photo: Robert Knudsen / Courtesy of White House Photographs / John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

 

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