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Rachel Lambert " Bunny " Mellon (August 9, 1910 – March 17, 2014) was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books.
Mar 18, 2014 · Rachel Lambert Mellon, an heir to the Listerine fortune and a horticulturalist, fine arts collector and philanthropist who redesigned the White House Rose Garden, died on Monday at the Upperville...
Dec 8, 2016 · Rachel Lambert Mellon—the American gardening and design idol who died in March at age 103 and was universally known as Bunny—believed that style was order and that order brought pleasure.
May 10, 2017 · But to the former first lady, the epitome of grace and sophistication was always her friend Bunny Mellon. Rachel Lambert Mellon (affectionately nicknamed Bunny) was the heiress to a mouthwash...
Mar 17, 2014 · Known for her love of arts, fashion and gardens, "last standing true American aristocrat" gave big bucks to ex-presidential candidate John Edwards, who used it it hide...
Sep 12, 2014 · Rachel Lambert Mellon, better known as Bunny, lived to be 103. During her life, she amassed an idiosyncratic but refined art collection, much of which will soon be up for auction at Sotheby’s ...
May 15, 2017 · With a laser eye, witty intelligence, and nimble hands, Rachel Lambert Mellon, known as “Bunny,” fostered her life as an art form.
Mar 18, 2014 · Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, a philanthropist, art patron and self-taught horticulturalist whose generous support of presidential candidate John Edwards drew her into the political scandal that ...
May 23, 2014 · During her lifetime, Rachel Lambert Mellon had released 48 works of art to the Gallery. Among the most recent of these is Vincent van Gogh’s mesmerizing Green Wheat Fields, Auvers (1890), which went on view in December 2013 for the first time since 1966.
Pioneer Information. Known as Bunny and born to a wealthy family, Mellon attended Miss Fine’s School in Princeton, New Jersey, and Foxcroft School (a girls’ preparatory school) in Middleburg, Virginia. Although she received no formal training in horticulture, it proved a lifelong avocation.
