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The Devine Life: Elsie de Wolfe’s Garden at the Villa Trianon

Posted by on July 12, 2011


While leafing through my ancient copy of The Book of Gardens and Gardening edited byCountry Life from 1924, I found these amazing pictures of Elsie de Wolfe’s garden. The garden was at her Villa Trianon in Versailles just outside of Paris. What caught my eye first were the standards which are not the usual roses, but pink geraniums in a bed of blue aubretia which must have been very striking against the green grass.The stylish Miss de Wolfe had a walk lined in ivy topiary arches which … (View original article)

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