Saunders Brothers , Inc. and NewGen Boxwood , introduced by Saunders Genetics , LLC , were instrumental in the restoration of the White House Rose Garden , unveiled to the public by First Lady Melania Trump on Saturday , August 22 , 2020 . The iconic space had changed very little since 1962 and a major redevelopment was long delinquent to protect and keep the garden for succeeding generations . In June 2020 , the Saunders were invited to the White House to confer with with landscape painting architecture house Perry Guillot , Inc. and Oehme , van Sweden and Associates on options for Turkish boxwood cultivars . This collaborationism was the first step in a process that culminate in the choice and initiation of over 400 Saunders Brothers boxwood , including 350 NewGen Independence ® from the NewGen ® Boxwood assembling .
Bird’s - middle view of the recreate White House Rose Garden with NewGen Independence ® boxwoodparterre hedges and ‘ Green Beauty ’ boxwood ‘ cloud effect ’ podium plantings . ( Photo by White House Photo Office )
“ The most famed garden in America was in trouble , ” said Bennett Saunders , general director of Saunders Genetics and co - proprietor of Saunders Brothers , the parent company of Saunders Genetics . “ I hadseen the trouble from telecasting word reporting in the Rose Garden . An intensive garden like this demand to be renewed every 20 - 25 years . The boxwood were suffering from insect and disease legal injury . On top of that , they were in peril of attracting Boxwood Blight , an incursive fungous disease that enter the United States in 2011 . ”
Large ‘ Green Beauty ’ Turkish boxwood planting create ‘ cloud effect ’ at the Presidents mistreat land in the White House Rose Garden . ( Photo by White House Photo Office )
Saunders Brothers advise the undertaking committee in the extract of better Boxwood Blight resistant NewGen Independence for the formal parterre hedging . identify Boxwood Blight resistant cultivars for the update was specifically a part of the skipper provision . Saunders Brothers also supply more than 50 large ‘ Green Beauty ’ boxwood to create the pairs of groupings of specimen shrubs that set up the sidesof the President of the United States step landing outside the Oval Office . In July , assisted by the Saunders team , landscape painting designer Perry Guillot in person selected all the specimen shrubs from the Saunders Brothers farm fields .
Saunders family attend White House Rose Garden reception- L to R : Jim , Tom , Paul , Bennett , and Robert Saunders . ( Photo by White House Photo Office )
The Saunders class ’s integral connection to the Rose Garden sweep two generations . In 1962 , Paul Saunders supplied 1500 box for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy ’s historical Rose Garden initiative . Pauland his sons Tom , Bennett , Jim , and Robert now manage Saunders Brothers , Inc. , and have continued to supply boxwood and confer with the White House throughout the old age , highlighted by the extensive redevelopment this summer .
Digging NewGen Independence ® boxwood at Saunders Brothers farm for the White House Rose Garden restoration .
“ The Rose Garden is an American treasure that has been stunningly restored to a classical design similar to the original design of 1962 , ” said Robert Saunders , world-wide handler of Saunders Brothers . “ It is an honour for our caller to continue a 58 - year tradition of assist to the White House Rose Garden . ”
Large ‘ Green Beauty ’ boxwood hold off to be unloaded at the White House Rose Garden .
Installing NewGen Independence ® Turkish boxwood parterre hedging at the White House Rose Garden . ( photograph by White House Photo Office )
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