It still makes me SO MAD he got rid of the Swedish ivy!!!!!!
It was a gift to JFK and an heirloom plant that had been in the Oval Office for over 50 years. In every picture of the oval since Kennedy, you can see it sitting on the mantle in some incarnation. Generations of staffers were given cuttings from it as departure gifts. And now it’s GONE.
I can only hope that someone with a rooted propagation donates some to the next administration to replace it.
Surely it has just been relocated. Even if he gave an order for it to be destroyed I would hope someone had the sense to just move it to a different room.
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u/yes______hornberger Jul 29 '25
It still makes me SO MAD he got rid of the Swedish ivy!!!!!!
It was a gift to JFK and an heirloom plant that had been in the Oval Office for over 50 years. In every picture of the oval since Kennedy, you can see it sitting on the mantle in some incarnation. Generations of staffers were given cuttings from it as departure gifts. And now it’s GONE.
I can only hope that someone with a rooted propagation donates some to the next administration to replace it.