Plant occur ator explained the history and use of some of the plants by native americans and others. 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. Bus thats n 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 land had been vacant. It had some grass, a broken irrigation system, a few trees but nothing formal. So they set about privately raising money to build a garden on this site. It took quite a few years, fundraising ban in the 90s and in 2006 it opened. There was a Design Competition held for almothe elements of th garden. They left a large space in the middle that we see here. This is the heart of the national garden. This is the regional native plant garden. I have worked here since 1986. 19
So now it is officially part of the custody of the national archives, the original. The copy right is retained. And i believe that the family has given the copyrights over to the sixth floor museum, in the old Texas School Book depository. If someone were to come here, they could look at it. Its just that if you were to choose to duplicate it and publish it, that you would need to get the copyright in order to do that, permission under the copyright. If you were to come in to see it, you would be watching a duplicate of the original. Which is true for any of our films. Because we want to make sure films are preserved when you come to lock at films here at the national archives, you are looking at a reference copy of the film. We have Motion Picture sound and video here within the national archives. Which, of course, is exactly what it says it is. Its the portion of our agency that takes care of all Motion Pictures and sound recordings. They have custody of this item. Its interesting, y
Plant occur ator explained the history and use of some of the plants by native americans and others. 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. Bus thats n 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 land had been vacant. It had some grass, a broken irrigation system, a few trees but nothing formal. So they set about privately raising money to build a garden on this site. It took quite a few years, fundraising ban in the 90s and in 2006 it opened. There was a Design Competition held for almothe elements of th garden. They left a large space in the middle that we see here. This is the heart of the national garden. This is the regional native plant garden. I have worked here since 1986. 19
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 vacant. It had some grass, a broken irrigation system, a few trees but nothing formal. So they set about privately raising money to build a garden on this site. It took quite a few years, fundraising began in the 90s and in 2006 it opened. There was a Design Competition held for the elements of the garden. A company was then hired to tie them all together. They left a large space in the middle that we
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