The Yves Saint Laurent Garden In Morocco
The Majorelle Garden was designed by French artist Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s and 1930s. Since 1980 the garden has been owned by Yves Saint-Laurent whose were scattered in the Majorelle Garden after his death in 2008. In the Autumn issue of Wilder, Rachel Abelson has some beautiful musings about the garden:
“The garden’s ubiquitous blue does have a trademarked moniker in fact: Majorelle, after the landscape’s namesake, the French expatriate watercolorist Jacques Majorelle who in 1924 began construction of his artist’s garden beneath a palm-frond canopy in the hear of Marrakech’s medina. For the next forty years, Majorelle labored on its painterly arrangement, amassing over 1,800 plant specimens from around the globe–Dr. Seussian fields of cacti, agave; ponytail palm and dragon tree orchards; ponds aswarm with water lilies papyrus; papery bougainvillea accretions and hard-core inflorescences of banana tonguing droopily at red hot pokers, dainty jasmine; pots of spiderwort and Moroccan resin spurge; plump succulents that pleas, “Feed me, Seymour.”
More photos after the jump.
Images by Kathy Lo
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