CSPAN3 American Artifacts December 25, 2014
Including a rose garden and regional garden. Plant curator Bill Mclaughlin explained the history and use of some of the plants by native americans and others. Everybody, welcome to the national garden. This is the most recent garden to open on our property. It opened in 2006. Its a wonderful place to look at native plants. But thats not where it got its start. It got its beginning when the rose became our National Floral emblem in the 1980s. Shortly after that, the senate wives committee started looking for a way to commemorate the rose. They noted this piece of land had been more or less vaca...