Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum welcomes the public to a program about All the Presidents’ Gardens given by Marta McDowell on Saturday, June 17, at 2 pm at the Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum. The arboretum is located at 725 Pines Lake Drive West in Wayne. The program is free for members of Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum and $15 for nonmembers.

McDowell teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden and consults for private clients and public gardens. Her most recent book, All the Presidents’ Gardens, is the winner of a 2017 American Horticultural Society Award. It relates the history of the White House grounds, starting with the seed-collecting, plant-obsessed George Washington and ending with Michelle Obama’s focus on edibles. It is also a story about Lincoln’s goats, Ike’s putting green, the Kennedys’ iconic roses, Amy Carter’s tree house, and much more.