The extensive gardens of the Nixon Library display more than 1,400 roses and 80 varieties, making it the largest rose garden in Orange County and among the top five largest in Southern California.

The gardens are an inspiration to gardeners from all over. The Nixon Library Gardens is also a great place to host a wedding or wedding reception.

Highlights of the Nixon Library Gardens include:

• One hundred Veterans Honor roses planted just outside the White House East Room replica.
• The Library's Andrew Jackson Magnolia tree, grown from a seedling given to First Lady Pat Nixon. The original Andrew Jackson Magnolia, featured on the $20 bill, was brought by President Andrew Jackson to the White House in 1835, transplanted from his Tennessee estate, The Hermitage.
• A bed of flowering magnolia soulangiana next to the East Room replica. Identical and in the same location as the White House magnolias, the Alexandrina, with its pinkish-purple saucer-sized blooms, was selected in consultation with the staff of the White House gardens.
• Twenty Debutante camellias, a soft pink that was among Mrs. Nixon's favorite colors, grace the elegant Muth Patio adjacent to the White House East Room.
• Near the cornerstone of the East Room replica is a bed of classic soft pink, 1843 roses, Souvenir de la Malmaison.

The First Lady's Garden near the Nixon Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA.

Additional roses add to the mass of color.

Rose varieties at the Nixon Library First Lady's Garden include:

• Just Joey, a classic hybrid tea from the 1970s with plate-sized apricot blooms
• David Austin's Abraham Darby
• 50 William Shakespeare 2000, a richly scented old-form rose with deep, rich red blooms
• Pat Nixon Rose, a variety of red-black rose developed in 1972 when Pat Nixon was still First Lady

Special Nixon Library Gardens areas include:

• The First Lady's Rose Garden, featuring an abundance of floribunda, hybrid teas, specialty roses, and English roses along terraced gravel pathways. A feature of the First Lady's Rose Garden is a hand-crafted white gazebo, on loan from the White House, under which Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox were married in their 1971 Rose Garden wedding.
• The Rose Woods, named for President Nixon's late personal secretary and featuring a peaceful walkway of roses in honor of the six First Ladies who have visited the Nixon Library.
• The California Formal Garden, which surrounds the 120-foot long reflecting pool, features symmetrical arrangements of Queen Palms, kumquats, and azaleas.
• The Birthplace Gardens, a charming California cottage garden design bordering the cozy bungalow in which the future President was born, featuring classic garden plants such as hollyhocks and Matilija Poppies, sometimes called Sunny Side Up because of their egg-like appearance.
• The Memorial Gardens that surround the resting place of President and Mrs. Nixon, featuring more than 25 varieties of David Austin roses, as well as dwarf scabiosa, delphinium and foxglove, in the serendipitous cottage design favored by Mrs. Nixon.

Images from Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Site