he was also ordering seeds and plants from people such as bernard mcmahon out of philadelphia and and he was receiving seeds from a friend of his in france the director of the botanical garden there named andre tuan and paris who was sending annual collections of seeds jefferson, so he was receiving lots of plants. material and speeds from people all over and that's and we combined a lot of that material, but we're always still doing research and looking for for more information about jefferson's gardens. we will be discussing the stories of enslaved gardeners in detail later in the month, but could you tell about some of the enslaved people who worked and labored in the gardens in jefferson's time? sure. well, we know a great deal about some of the enslaved gardeners here the gardener we know most about is as a man named wormley hughes who was actually a trained gardener. he had been trained by a scottish gardener who lived here for a time. and he worked really interfaced with a family a great deal helping to well when jefferson was laying out these flower beds, for example, he was s