NO BUNNY—whether cottontail or French Angora—ever came across a garden shed quite like Bunny Mellon’s. In 1960, at what was then a nearly 4,000-acre Upperville, Va., estate called Rokeby Farms, the heiress to the Listerine fortune created a showpiece of a potting hut. New York interior designer Katie Ridder contentedly toils in the three gardens (formal, woodland and cutting) of her own comparatively modest 7-acre weekend retreat outside the city. She considers Mellon’s shed one of her favorite interiors. “It’s such a happy...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 18, 2020 17:03 UTC