Alain Baraton has been the head gardener of the Domaine national de Trianon and the Grand Park of Versailles for more than three decades. He is one of the most famous gardeners in the world. He has ...

The gardens of Versailles have seen many a horticultural trailblazer in their time. Louis XIV started it off with his Sun King fountains, proliferation of bosquets and the odd lover's grotto. His ...

Lafayette’s Central Park was visited this week by the man who manages one of the most famous gardens in the world. Alain Baraton, head gardener of the Domaine national de Trianon and the Grand Park of ...

On the night of Dec. 25, 1999, a massive storm tore through the gardens of Versailles, destroying more than 18,000 trees and rendering nearly all 2,100 acres of the grounds impassable. Heavy equipment ...

Alain Baraton, trans. by Christopher Brent Murray. Rizzoli Ex Libris, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8478-4268-1 Overseeing a public garden remains a most underappreciated vocation. If the gardener-in-chief ...

While in Lafayette for a long-scheduled visit to meet with the Horse Farm park planners and deliver a lecture, the chief gardener for France’s Palace of Versailles on Tuesday said Americans have long ...

VERSAILL ES, France -- Alain Baraton is an untraditional gardener in perhaps the most traditional garden on the planet. He is the keeper of the Gardens of Versailles -- with hundreds of acres of ...

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Alain Baraton is the head gardener at the Grand Trianon and the grounds of the Palace of Versailles. It was after closely studying this painting that he decided to restore the gardens to how they ...