Versailles in the Back Yard

Well, why not?  If you want a vegetable garden, the latest hot trend in landscaping, put one in that's like the one at Versailles.  According to last Friday's Wall Street Journal, a homeowner in California put in a ten thousand dollar veg garden inspired by the gardens built for the Sun King.  And if that's not enough, how about the couple who spent $60 thousand on a veg garden at a weekend house in NY -- but since they are not there most of the time, the help gets most of the produce.  When the well-off decide they have to have something in the garden, you know it's a full-blown trend.  Read the entire article here by Ellen Gamerman, and take a wide-eyed look at the photos.