Could you share more with us what that process is like and about Jefferson's journal in particular?

Well, Jefferson kept a garden journal.

He began when he was 23 years old and still living at his boyhood home called Shadwell, which is on the other side of the Rivanna River, a couple of miles from Monticello Mountain.

And he had a garden there as well.

He began jotting notes in his journal.

As a young man, he was just observing flowers in the garden as well as the wildflowers that grew along the mountain slopes of Monticello.

So he had an early interest in the native flora of this region.

Who were some of the helpers that he had?

Can you talk about those as well?

Yes.

When the Garden Club of Virginia restored the gardens in 1940, '41, a book was published shortly thereafter by Edwin Betts and Hazelhurst Perkins.

Edwin Betts was a professor of botany at, uh, the University of Virginia.

Hazelhurst Perkins was, um, the, uh, was part of the Garden Club of Virginia, person who was helping to restore the gardens, and they combined to write a book, a, a small book on Thomas Jefferson's flower gardens.

And then it, it was, um, later...

So this was published in the 1940s, and then later we, we updated this, uh, book and Peter Hatch, um, added an annotated plant list at the end of it, which I helped him write.

Uh, what examples are, of information you found out that was missing from that original one that you have now?