Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon

About this book

A treasure trove of Bunny Mellons garden design philosophy and advice from her personal archive. Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon is for anyone who has enjoyed time spent in a garden from aspiring garden makers to those who manage large estates. This collection is comprised of extracts from Bunnys own writings and garden notes as well as photographs and drawings from her archive. Chapters are organized by Atmosphere (sky horizon shadows) Climate Light Space Shape Maintenance and morereaders will feel as if Bunny Mellon has come alongside as a gardening guide and friend. Bunny Mellon was of the affluent class and mingled along with her husband Paul Mellon in the circles of the East Coast gentry of the Kennedy and Reagan eras. But Mrs. Mellon as she was respectfully called by those professional gardeners who worked with her most wasnt afraid to get her hands dirty in the rich soil of her familys Virginia farm. Beyond this Bunny Mellon was known nationally and internationally as a style icon of her time enjoying friendships with Givenchy the Kennedys and the like. Her personal passion was for design and that was exhibited in her fashion and her garden. A trusted author Linda Holden learned that Bunny wanted to write a gardening book but never found the time. Searching the familys archive after Mrs. Mellons death the editorswhom all shared personal relationships with Bunnydiscovered a trove of photographs illustrations and writings and have now turned it into the how-to gardening book Bunny had hoped to write.