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 ...

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 ...

PARIS - For gardeners at the Versailles Palace, it was the worst of times: The favorite oak tree of Marie Antoinette was finally toppled after more than three centuries. Unlike Marie Antoinette, the ...

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 ...

Toward the end of his life, King Louis XIV of France was hindered by gout from walking freely through the immense and wondrous gardens he had willed into existence at the Château of Versailles. But ...