so, but it was really only when i followed john bartram's footsteps through the appalachian mountainstober, 2006 that i understood just how important plants had been for the founding fathers. because bartram had ghana plan taunting and had gone to the appalachian mountains. so i went down to the shenandoah national park and i looked at my map, and i saw that thomas jefferson monticello was nearby and i felt okay, i will stop and have a look at the writer's, of the declaration of independence, and this is monticello. but when i came up to the mountaintop, i was just absolutely astounded because what i saw was the work of the revolutionary gardiner who crafted his ground as carefully as he had crafted his words. and monticello brings together the vast duty of america with a productivity of the land. and this combination was useful, i think very uniquely american, and i think that monticello can be left like a monument to jefferson's beliefs and philosophy and really almost like his letters i suppose. so anyway, john bertrand monticello became the inspiration of this book. so i realize t

so john bartram was growing here the flora from all 13 states, but his customers were english. a few english, a few germans and the few american customers he had, they actually wanted his european plants which john bartram had received from his english customers. so washington is really the first american to create an all-american ornamental garden and the question is why is this important? i think it's important because he's making a very deliberate choice. when he returns from the war of independence, he notes that he's a revolutionary hero, and he knows that mount vernon is going to be the most visited private home in the united states. and he's going to make sure that the first thing that visitors see is an all-american garden and this is a painting of mount vernon. you can see just on the side the shrubberies that is planted with native species, and this is his view from his house and this is not a celebration of america's landscape and america species i don't know what else it should be. so john adams and thomas jefferson experienced something very similar when they go on

she speaks at the home of 18th-century botanist john bartram whose garden was visited by delegates of the continental congress in philadelphia. it's just under an hour. .. >> d10's i never thought of a new cat as a job the nation because shaped from 1987 when i went on a seven week road trip washington d.c. two san francisco. that concerns every cliche the chairman has in the late 1980's. but what really stayed with me the most was the best fields and ovals like man had imposed its grip on nature anything seem to be a larger scale than what other issues to in zero. big houses on a large plot of land and not a lot of gardening but a big loss in but as a think of the larger than life industrial city and sunni living in britain because this is what i was used to it was the garden of my best british friends but i ask your to send me a picture and since may 132. [laughter] this is the other issues to in britain. in america you are most likely to see this rather than somebody pruning roses but how long i was. that america at its roots is just as much as a governing nation but it is just a l