WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House Rose Garden has been renovated in time to be the center of attention.
First lady Melania Trump will hand over her cloak of the Republican National Convention Tuesday night from the garden, which stands out for its proximity to the Oval Office. Three-week paintings in the garden, which were carried out in the spirit of their original 1962 design, were presented to journalists on Saturday.
White House officials said the renovations were funded by donations. They refused to disclose the position of work.
The venue for the first lady’s speech will be just one of the tactics in which the Republican National Convention will break with political norms, since federal regulations prohibit the White House from being the scene of expressly political events, a norm with which many presidents they have flirted.
But Trump’s circle of relatives will be the first to use the executive mansion for a political convention. Beyond the first lady’s speech, President Donald Trump will deliver his speech Thursday night from the South Garden of the White House, where a scene is built this weekend.
The flowers on the lawn are largely pastels, which are favored through the first lady, adding the larger white roses, which were in honor of the first papal scale in the White House through Pope John Paul II in 1979 A boxwood form has also been added, while a dozen apple trees have been slaughtered and will be replanted in other parts of the field.
In addition, a seating area on the east side of the lawn, which is used through chairs for lunch and other meetings, has been discarded and will be replaced by an art installation that has not yet been announced.
The visually striking maxim replaces on the lawn the addition of a 3-foot (nearly one meter) wide limestone path that borders the central lawn. Minor visual adjustments come with advanced drainage and infrastructure and make grass more available to others with disabilities Audiovisual, broadcasting, and other arrangements are also part of the plan.
“Protecting the historic integrity of the White House landscape is a duty and we will do our duty as guardians of the public trust,” Melania Trump wrote in a report published in the announcement of the renovations.
Presidents have long used rose grass as a backdrop for primary events, and Trump is increasingly employing it for outdoor events, considered safer for coronavirus pandemic meetings. The president and the first girl were scheduled to attend a lawn reception on Saturday. Night.