The Magical Gardens of Bunny Mellon
This fascinating presentation covers much of Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon's life, her legacy as an important American landscape designer and her impact on ecology and sustainable garden design. From her re-design of the legendary White House Rose Garden to the establishment of The Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Jennifer Yates will showcase and explain how Bunny Mellon creates magic in her landscape designs.
To attend this free virtual program, you need to obtain a Zoom meeting link. Upon registration, a meeting link will be sent to you via email. Please note that this program will be recorded.
Jennifer Yates is an award-winning landscape designer. Her work focuses on the impressive and beautiful as well as ecological. Her lifetime of study in the complementary fields of architecture, horticulture and the environment inform her natural gift for color and structure to create harmonious landscape designs. Jennifer has presented at Botanical Gardens around the country on topics such as Notable Garden Designers, Sustainable Garden Design, Rain Gardens, Interior Plantscapes and numerous other topics.
She obtained a Bachelor of Interior Architecture with a minor in Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, with study of Art History at Brown University. She is certified by the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA). She did Graduate study in Horticulture, Landscape architecture at the New York Botanical Gardens. Ms. Yates was trained by leading teachers of sustainable gardening – Dan Kitteridge and John Ramos. She studied Feng Shui with Master Lynn Yap in Singapore.
Funding for this free virtual program is provided by the Friends of the Hamden Library.