I'm glad that SOME photographic record of the way these beautiful gardens looked is available here on CZcams. So, so terrible what they've done to it. I loved going there as a child.
So beautiful. So tragic. See how the gardens were destroyed in the video "See What Became of Duke Gardens at Duke Farms." Something this glorious should never have been touched. They were the artistic creation of Doris Duke. I am sorry those managing your foundation couldn't appreciate the beauty of the gardens or their historic value out of respect for you. Rest in peace, Doris.
So Sad. These garden were a labor of love and now they're completely destroyed. I'm so glad someone captured some of the beauty of the gardens before they were destroyed. All that money and no children you would have thought there would have been a trust created for the preservation of the gardens along with the home. Doris Duke wanted it to be shared with the public so I don't know what happened. I'm just glad to see it was captured in video to last forever.
I looked at a video made a couple years ago and it looks like they tried to replace the gardens with something smaller and definitely not as nice... and doesn't have the magic could had before...
Thank God somebody photographed this place but regretfully is too short and now nobody can go back there and photograph it as it is gone thanks to their horrific trustees . What they have replaced it with as much smaller and nothing like these .... it doesn't have the magic that was here.. and nowadays A lot of it looks more Garden Center where you go shopping for plants rather than real world class Gardens which is what it looked like before
I find it a sin that Doris Duke herself wanted to display these gardens for the pubic to see and enjoy. I was fortunate enough to take my class for a visit in the late 1908's and they were stunning and beautiful to behold. This group of caretakers of Ms. Duke's fortune, has chosen not to honor her legacy with keeping the garden maintained and opened, but instead line their pockets with other types of "green." This is another example of corporate greed.
Yes it is a real atrocity what happened to Duke Gardens . I keep saying that I wish somebody out there would make a professional documentary about this and what happens when a Board of Trustees cannot be trusted . What they did was so evil it was as if they cut the heart out of that estate and you know if Doris Duke could see it , the same thing would happen to her ....she would feel absolutely gutted . The Board of Trustees are heartless. What is there now does not look like the original Greenhouse Gardens.... it is not as magical or spectacular and a lot of it looks like a garden center where you would go shopping for plants
I'm glad that SOME photographic record of the way these beautiful gardens looked is available here on CZcams. So, so terrible what they've done to it. I loved going there as a child.
It was so beautiful then...
So beautiful. So tragic. See how the gardens were destroyed in the video "See What Became of Duke Gardens at Duke Farms." Something this glorious should never have been touched. They were the artistic creation of Doris Duke. I am sorry those managing your foundation couldn't appreciate the beauty of the gardens or their historic value out of respect for you. Rest in peace, Doris.
So Sad. These garden were a labor of love and now they're completely destroyed. I'm so glad someone captured some of the beauty of the gardens before they were destroyed. All that money and no children you would have thought there would have been a trust created for the preservation of the gardens along with the home. Doris Duke wanted it to be shared with the public so I don't know what happened. I'm just glad to see it was captured in video to last forever.
You can thank the nut job Michael Catania who is Duke Farms Executive Director for destroying Doris Duke's legacy.
I wonder if he is a relative of the Catania realtors in the Media , Suburban Philadelphia area . One of them used to be a judge .
I looked at a video made a couple years ago and it looks like they tried to replace the gardens with something smaller and definitely not as nice... and doesn't have the magic could had before...
i was there while she was still alive ,, that whole property is amazing. and the white deer that live there
Thank God somebody photographed this place but regretfully is too short and now nobody can go back there and photograph it as it is gone thanks to their horrific trustees .
What they have replaced it with as much smaller and nothing like these .... it doesn't have the magic that was here.. and nowadays A lot of it looks more Garden Center where you go shopping for plants rather than real world class Gardens which is what it looked like before
I find it a sin that Doris Duke herself wanted to display these gardens for the pubic to see and enjoy. I was fortunate enough to take my class for a visit in the late 1908's and they were stunning and beautiful to behold. This group of caretakers of Ms. Duke's fortune, has chosen not to honor her legacy with keeping the garden maintained and opened, but instead line their pockets with other types of "green." This is another example of corporate greed.
Yes it is a real atrocity what happened to Duke Gardens . I keep saying that I wish somebody out there would make a professional documentary about this and what happens when a Board of Trustees cannot be trusted . What they did was so evil it was as if they cut the heart out of that estate and you know if Doris Duke could see it , the same thing would happen to her ....she would feel absolutely gutted . The Board of Trustees are heartless.
What is there now does not look like the original Greenhouse Gardens.... it is not as magical or spectacular and a lot of it looks like a garden center where you would go shopping for plants