“These improvements also make the garden fully accessible to all Americans,” she said, “including those with disabilities.” “So they straightened that out, and they made a walkway, so that you didn’t have to cut across the grass.” President Kennedy hated when people trampled the lawn, the author said.Īt the official reopening Saturday, Melania clarified that changes like the paths improved access.
“It’s different people and different needs at different times when they put in different paving material,” McDowell said. Every administration makes tweaks, and over time, they don’t all add up. One Twitter user wrote that the current first lady “paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” The limestone paving is new, yes, but as McDowell pointed out, it runs along the border, not down the middle. “It’s this little diamond shape with a zigzag little parterre and it’s infilled with plants - many of which are roses.” “It looks very much the same,” McDowell said during a phone interview. white.” The backlash spanned both ends of the political spectrum.īut, at least according to Marta McDowell, author of “All the Presidents’ Gardens” and an expert on gardening history (“Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life”), not much has changed from the traditional Rose Garden design. Slate called the revamp “fit for an unchecked presidency” and “Versailles in miniature.” One political strategist lamented that “she cut down Jackie’s trees!” A young activist called former First Lady Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden “colorful and diverse and beautiful,” whereas “Melania just made it. On Saturday, she unveiled the changes to reporters. In late July, First Lady Melania Trump announced that she would renovate the 125-foot by 60-foot plot behind the White House. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a Rose Garden by any other design might not, it seems.
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