Washington's Birthday

Washington’s birthday was celebrated by his peers in government when he was president — mostly.

The official designation is as Washington’s Birthday, although it has come to be known informally as Presidents Day.

By the late 1960s, Washington’s Birthday was one of nine federal holidays that fell on specific dates on different days of the week, according to a 2004 article in the National Archives’ Prologue magazine.

But on the federal level, the day is still officially Washington’s Birthday.

The rose year begins on Washington’s Birthday, when Spiro prunes and feeds her plants.