On January 24, 1962, Bunny sent watercolor sketches of her plan for the Rose Garden, along with detailed renderings, to the president. She signed her name “Rachel Lambert Mellon,” as if to ...

As I've looked at these photos, Bunny always liked to improve things ... Bettmann/Getty The Rose Garden was Mellon's "living legacy," according to Gordon, and her best-known work, something ...

On the line was Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon ... be named the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. One day when Mellon was in the Rose Garden removing old soil, she cut into a “mysterious cable ...

Bettmann//Getty Images The first spring in the Rose Garden after Jackie Kennedy and Bunny Mellon’s renovation. However, Mellon was not a trained landscape designer and was privately very nervous ...

The estate features original gardens and expansive ocean views. The post Bunny Mellon’s storied Cape Cod estate hits rental ...

Rachel Lambert Mellon—the American gardening and design idol who died in March at age 103 and was universally known as Bunny—believed ... the White House’s Rose Garden (1962) and Jacqueline ...

"I have to tell you, my dear, I hate publicity," said Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. "I don't know what ... redesigned the Rose Garden, presided over the floral arrangements for JFK's bier, and remained ...

When the White House Rose Garden was renovated in the summer ... To create it he turned to a family friend, Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon, the wife of the banking heir and art collector ...

Kennedy asked Bunny Mellon to redesign and improve the Rose Garden, which had been essentially untouched since 1913. Working with the landscape architect Perry Wheeler, she designed the new West ...

she presented Mellon with a handmade scrapbook she had personally created. Inside, the inscription read: “For Bunny — who made the Rose Garden — and who brought so much happiness to all our ...

As a Christmas gift in 1966, she presented Mellon with a green and white striped handmade scrapbook she had personally created. The inscription reads: “For Bunny — who made the Rose Garden ...