WASHINTGON -- See Michelle Obama's famous vegetable garden up close this weekend.
The White House is opening its grounds to visitors on Saturday and Sunday for the twice-annual White House Garden Tours.
Step into the Rose Garden, where you've seen countless bill signings and presidential addresses take place, and the beautiful Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.
The South Lawn of the White House will also be open to visitors. It's home to the enormous -- and recently replanted -- Kitchen Garden. It's also one of First Pet Bo Obama's favorite places to play, so look out for chew toys.
Check out the slideshow below to see John F. Kennedy addressing the first group of Peace Corps Volunteers, one of the country's first female members of Congress at a 1926 garden party, Michelle Obama planting veggies and other terrific moments from the White House gardens:
President John F. Kennedy addresses Peace Corps Volunteers during a ceremony for the first group of departing volunteers, leaving for Tanganyika and Ghana, in the White House Rose Garden, 1961.
Rep. Edith N. Rogers and Carl Brunner at a White House garden party, 1926.
Michelle Obama works in her White House vegetable garden in the 90-degree temperatures June 4, 2010, with students from Hollin Meadows Elementary School of Alexandria, Va.
Indian delegation in the White House Conservatory during the Civil War, with J.G. Nicolay, President Abraham Lincoln's secretary, standing in center back row, 1863.
White House staff check the podium prior to a news conference with President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, July 22, 2009.
President Barack Obama throws a ball for Bo, the family dog, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sept. 9, 2010.
First sign of spring at the White House, 1937.
President Jimmy Carter and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat have refreshments in the garden of the White House, 1980.
The White House garden in a photo taken some time between 1889 and 1906.
White House Rose Garden, 1914.
President Theodore Roosevelt's lawn party on the White House Grounds, 1905.
President Barack Obama makes a statement to the press on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Rose Garden of the White House, July 16, 2010.
President Barack Obama walks in the White House Rose Garden, May 15, 2009.
President Barack Obama during an interview with journalists in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 29, 2009.
White House grounds, circa 1901.
Tent in the White House Rose Garden, 1914.
White House South Garden, 1921.
President Barack Obama walks through the Rose Garden of the White House for an outdoor meeting with senior staff, May 9, 2011. Walking with the president, from left, are: senior adviser David Plouffe, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, counselor to the president Pete Rouse, and counsel to the president Bob Bauer.
White House gardens, 1921.
White House grounds, some time between 1900 and 1906.
First lady Michelle Obama joins students for the spring White House Kitchen Garden planting on the South Grounds. March 26, 2012.
President and Mrs. Coolidge with their military aides, greeting two veterans in wheelchairs in the White House garden, 1924.
Garden of the White House, with the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the background, 1921.
White House Rose Garden, date unknown.
Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, date unknown.
Quentin Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's youngest son, amid potted palms in White House garden, 1901.
A White House valet carries a tray of beers in the Rose Garden to President Barack Obama, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley on July 30, 2009.
Snow covers the East Garden at the White House, Dec. 21, 2009.
Bo, the Obama family dog, stands in the Rose Garden of the White House, March 31, 2010.
First lady Michelle Obama speaks to children at the White House's garden on March 26, 2012.
Members of Congress gather in the Rose Garden of the White House April 30, 2001. President George W. Bush marked his first 100 days in office with a luncheon for lawmakers.
First lady Michelle Obama and White House chef Sam Kass tell the story of the first garden on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during World War II.
President George H. W. Bush walks onto the White House lawn with his Springer Spaniel, Millie, and Millie's new puppies. One of the puppies is Spot, who would later live at the White House as President George W. Bush's dog.
White House Pastry Chef Bill Yosses, center, leads students from River Terrace Elementary School in Washington, D.C., on a tour of the South Grounds of the White House, Oct. 7, 2010.
Tourists take pictures from the South Lawn during the White House Gardens and Grounds Tour which is open to the public, April 17, 2010.
Bo, the Obama family dog, runs on the South Lawn of the White House, June, 28 2010.
People attending the annual Easter Egg Roll walk along the South Lawn of the White House, April 5, 2010.
White House garden, 2007.
Visitors on the White House Summer Garden Tours, 2007.
The White House Garden Tours will run on April 21 from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. and on April 22 from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Tickets will be distributed on a first-come basis at the Ellipse Visitor Pavilion, next to the White House, beginning at 8 a.m. for each day's tours.
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