CSPAN3 American Artifacts October 20, 2014
Educate citizens on plants and their usage. This vision was realized in the 1820s. The most recent addition, the national garden, teachers plants of the midatlantic, including a rose garden and regional garden. The plant curator explains the history and the indigenous plants. Everybody, welcome to the national garden. This is the most recent garden on our property that opened in 2006. It is really a wonderful place to look at native plants but that is not where the garden got its start. They got its beginning when the rose became our National Floor emblem in the 1980s. Shortly after that, they...