Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon by Linda Holden
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast:
Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon by Linda Holden
This book came out in 2020, and I'm a huge Bunny Mellon fan, so I was very excited to order my copy. What's special about this book is that it shares Bunny's personal advice, philosophy about design, many of her wonderful sayings, and her approach to the garden.
Another thing readers of this book will like is how it's organized — because elements of the garden organize chapters. So you might have a chapter on climate, space, shape, atmosphere, or even light — and so on.
Now, the effect is that you feel like Bunny is right there with you, helping you see both elements more clearly and appreciate their important role in your garden design.
Before I continue, I just wanted to take a quick second and share a little bit about Bunny's personal story with you.
When Bunny was alive, her favorite thing to do was to design a garden. Her husband, Paul Mellon, was one of America's wealthiest men. Bunny and Paul maintained five homes in New York, Cape Cod, Nantucket and Tigua, and Upperville, Virginia.
In addition to designing the gardens for all of her own homes, Bunny designed gardens for some of her closest friends and celebrities. Now, the author of this book, Linda Holden, is the perfect person to help preserve Bunny's legacy and all the tips and insights she gathered during her lifetime. Linda wrote another book about Bunny Mellon that I recommended in January last year. That book is called The Gardens of Bunny Mellon and features most of the gardens that Bunny created.
Now, to my way of thinking, this book was the natural followup to that first book because now Linda is sharing all of Bunny’s Garden secrets with us — her secrets to garden design — and it's like having a master class in design with Bunny Mellon. And so, I want to thank Linda Holden for that because, as I already mentioned, I'm a huge Bunny Mellon fan.
Linda's book is 176 pages of garden secrets from the late great Bunny Mellon.
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