The first study of the gardens and landscapes of Bunny Mellon written by a leading specialist
illustrated with both new and archival photography. . . . The Gardens of Bunny Mellon is a tome
to treasure.” —Architectural Digest Throughout her long and storied life Rachel Bunny”
Mellon’s greatest passion was garden design. She and her husband Paul Mellon one of the
wealthiest men in America maintained homes in New York Cape Cod Nantucket Antigua and
Upperville Virginia and she designed the gardens at all of them. She also designed gardens
for some of her dearest friends including the Rose Garden and the East Garden at the White
House at the request of President Kennedy and the gardens at both the Paris home and the
château of couturier Hubert de Givenchy. All of these gardens are featured in The Gardens of
Bunny Mellon illustrated with Mellon’s own garden plans sketches and watercolors. Much like
one of Mellon’s landscapes The Gardens of Bunny Mellon slowly matured over several years
allowing the gifted landscape photographer Roger Foley to record Oak Spring her cherished
Virginia home in all four seasons. The book also features vintage photographs by Horst Aarons
and others of Mellon’s gardens for her homes in Cape Cod Antigua and New York. Author Linda
Jane Holden’s text is based on extensive interviews with Mellon before Mellon’s death at age
103 in 2014. 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
