It won't have full color all year round. The roses have been pruned.

It is also the season. The tulips come in spring, the roses in summer. Who's to say the tulips are not still in the ground, returning next spring? also the trees were dug up, not cut down, they will be replanted.

I truly wish my life was so untroubled that I had it in me to be "outraged" over someone else's gardening taste being different than mine.

Aria - FULL COLOR? Have you seen tulips when not in bloom? Have you seen that same angle pic in fall and winter , spring for that matter. All the maintenance of removing the dead flowers - weeding, spraying, replanting. Melania has brought practical elegance to the white house. Not a goobly gook hodge podge of flowers!

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At least it has flowers, tulips look good for 1 week per year, cherry trees are the same.

The funniest thing to me about this whole "debate" is that the left is obviously using prepared talking points from the same source. They may have gotten them second or third hand, but they all originated from the same source. How do I know that, you ask? Because whoever prepared the talking points got a number of things wrong resulting in all the people using them getting the exact same things wrong the exact same way using the exact same deceptively cropped photos! Who knows, maybe this is part of that Chinese collusion that was briefly reported then spiked a couple weeks ago. The American people deserve an investigation of Biden/Chinese collusion!

It was ADA compliant before this renovation. I was there.

@XianJaguar Yes it is a waste of water when none is needed in the first place. I very much know the nature of crabapple trees as there were several in our yard where I grew up. One of my daily chores in the late summer/fall was to collect all the fallen apples. No water required; just bend over and pick them up. Don't even get me started on leaf blowers.

Patti: Once you add the walkways, you HAVE to cut down the crabapple trees! I live in an area where there are lots of them. They are MESSY. They get bumpy sticky fruit all over the sidewalk, and that makes it hard for wheel-chair bound people to get around. It also makes the sidewalks NOT ADA compliant. And the trees are messy enough that a cleaning crew would have to be out there constantly hosing down the sidewalks....what a waste of water! I wish people knew about the nature of crabapple trees, and how much hell they put on wheel-chair bound people, or anyone using a walker. Not everyone is able-bodied!

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But then you Trump Derangement Syndrome folks would be "outraged" at this "foreigner" "destroying" the "history" of the central lawn.

Once again gets the facts straight. Late August is not exactly "peak bloom" for flowers in DC. They'll look just fine in the spring. And the stated goal of the project was to update the Rose Garden to be more in line with Jackie Kennedy's original vision and plan. So if you don't like it then you're hating Jackie, not Melania. (oops) Hate-filled liberals really need to grow up.