Gardening At The White House Through The Years
WASHINGTON, D.C. —
THOMAS JEFFERSON: Jefferson (1801-1809) hired the first White House gardener, who also was responsible for cultivating a “kitchen” garden. But it wasn’t until 1825, when John Quincy Adams became president, that the vegetable garden and surrounding grounds began to flourish. Adams established a nursery for tree seedlings and a two-acre garden filled with vegetables, herbs and fruit trees, as well as flowers, shrubs and shade trees.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: By the 1840s, a new kitchen garden had been planted southwest of the White House. Receipts for the seeds show that Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd, enjoyed an assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables. The kitchen garden was removed in 1871, during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, due to the construction of West Executive Avenue.
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