National Parks Blog » laura bush http://blog.nationalparks.org News & Updates From America's National Parks Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:10:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Washington Post features First Bloom at the White House http://blog.nationalparks.org/youth/washington-post-features-first-bloom-at-the-white-house/ http://blog.nationalparks.org/youth/washington-post-features-first-bloom-at-the-white-house/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:33:08 +0000 Dan Puskar http://blog.nationalparks.org/?p=21 Adolfo Guzman at a First Bloom event at the World War II Memorial in July. First Bloom was invited to participate in the White House Garden Tours on August 9, 2008. Kids are getting their hands dirty and learning about native species and the environment in their own backyards. As Adrian Higgins writes in yesterday’s Washington Post:

‘Adolfo Guzman, 13, is already becoming a green thumb, recently instructing his uncle in how to plant a potted coneflower. “He was doing it all wrong,” Adolfo said.’

Read the entire article here.

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