Linda Holden is the author of Presidents’ Gardens.Roger Foley is an award-winning garden and landscape photographer. Sir Peter Crane is the inaugural president of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
"The Gardens of Bunny Mellon reveals the horticulturalist's iconic
oases, including her Oak Spring estate in Virginia and the White
House Rose Garden." --Martha Stewart Living
"The Gardens of Bunny Mellon is part guide--with gorgeous
photographs by Roger Foley that could make even the least inclined
to go hunting for a trowel--part biography, and part social
history. Mellon's passion is apparent throughout."--Vogue.com
"Bunny Mellon was happiest weilding a pair of garden clippers. Even
as a child, Mellon was drawn to landscape design. . . . Mellon's
ingenious, often underappreciated body of work should be noticed,
and this book is a valuable contribution to that end."--Flower
"For admirers of the inimitable style of "Bunny" Mellon, and the
innate design flair that took her--without formal training--to the
White House and Versailles, the upcoming book, The Gardens of Bunny
Mellon, is a tome to treasure."--ArchitecturalDigest.com
"It could be just one more envy-inducing look at how the 1% live,
but instead The Gardens of Bunny Mellon is a tribute to a woman who
found her passion in beautiful gardens. . . . The self-taught
horticulturist didn't just create beautiful green oases in each of
the family homes around the world, she also left her mark on some
of the most famous gardens on the planet."--American Express
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"Mellon was the garden design master. She designed not only the
gardens at all five of her homes spanning across the East Coast and
beyond, but also the Rose Garden at the White House for President
Kennedy and the formal and vegetable gardens of Hubert de
Givenchy's Chateau du Jonchet. These lavish landscape designs are
featured in The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, in addition to her own
garden plans, sketches, watercolors and archival
photographs."--Beach Modern Luxury
"Takes an insider's tour through the legendary tastemaker's
influential green spaces."--Veranda
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