White House Lawn Becomes a Garden

Here is one change in Washington that gardeners everywhere will like, Michelle Obama has decided to plant a garden in the South lawn of the White House.

Here is a link to the White House Blog:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/20/Spring-Gardening/

Here is a link to the White House garden planting layout

http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/garden_layout.pdf

Here is a link to a CNN story with more details, including the interesting fact that the Obama family is the first family to plant a garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt planted a Victory Garden during World War II.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/20/white.house.garden/?iref=mpstoryview

I also liked the part about the swing set being added for the Obama girls. Sign me up for a federally funded swing set and gardener too! I don't think there will be any forthcoming pictures of the president pulling weeds on Saturdays.