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Their uses. This vision was realized in the 1820s. Congress created the u. S. Botanic garden on the capitol grounds. The most recent addition, the national garden, features plants of the midatlantic, including a rose garden and regional garden. The plant curator explains the history and the indigenous plants used by native americans, colonials, and others. 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. This garden got its beginning when the rose became our National Floral emblem in the 1980s. Shortly after that, the senate wives committee began looking for a place to commemorate the rose. They noted a piece of land a little less than three acres it had some grass, a few trees, but nothing formal. They began privately raising money to build a garden on this site. It took quite a few years. Fundraising began in the 1990s a

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