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Romancing the Garden by COURTNEY TENTLER and VIRGINIA HAYES LOTUSLAND NEWSLETTER FOR MEMBERS VOLUME 22 NO. 3 SUMMER 2013 Romancing the Garden BY COURTNEY TENTLER AND VIRGINIA HAYES ADAME GANNA WALSKA was a passionate woman and had M many loves throughout her life. Her romantic journey included six husbands and ultimately brought her to Santa Barbara, where she lived her last 43 years creating and caring for her last and final love, Lotusland. Here is the story of those earlier loves. Madame’s first husband was Count Arcadie d’Eingorn. She met him in St. S Petersburg, Russia, just after he returned E V I from serving as a veterinarian in the H C R A Russo-Japanese War. She fell in love D N immediately, finding his clean-shaven A L S look attractively foreign in a land of U T O L beards and mustaches. They flirted at M O balls and parties for almost a year R F S before they eloped in 1907, when she O T O was just 19 years old. Shortly after H P their marriage he was diagnosed with Madame Ganna Walska Count Arcadie d’Eingorn tuberculosis and the couple moved to a Circa 1920 Married 1907, annulled 1915 sanitarium in Switzerland in an attempt to recover his health. His refusal to IN THIS ISSUE submit to the sanitarium’s strict regime, including sneaking out at night to drink Romancing the Garden 1 Exceptional Plants: 11 and smoke at a nearby casino, left her Lotusland Auction and Sale LotusFest! 4 discouraged. They were separated for Your Legacy Gifts Help 11 Lotusland Welcomes New Trustees 4 several years before their marriage was Lotusland and the Bees! dissolved in 1915. Collections News 5 By 1916, Madame Walska was Succulents Along Sycamore Fall Harvest Dinner: 11 singing at a French cabaret in New Canyon Road A Lotusland Food and Wine Fete York, but developed a persistent throat Director’s Letter 5 Charles Glass…In His Own Words 12 problem and was referred to Dr. Joseph Part XV of a Series Fraenkel, a well-respected neuroendo- The Lotus Society 6 crinologist. He was almost 30 years her Membership Corner 12 Horticultural Happenings 7 senior, but he was immediately smitten Lotusland’s 4th Grade 13 and they were married just 10 days after Members’ Family Day 8 Outreach Program: School’s their initial meeting. He adored her, A Jurassic Adventure! Out for Summer! calling her by the pet name “Baby,” and Volunteer Profile: Catherine Thielst 10 Thank You to Our Garden 13 introduced her to New York society. Young and Smart Champions, Garden Stewards Dr. Fraenkel had suffered from and Garden Guardians painful gastric problems for many years Summer Twilight Tour 10 and Madame dutifully cared for him, Monday Morning Lecture 10 Help Make Lotusland’s 13 Continued on page 2 The Dunlap Cacti Collection Wishes Come True 2 The LOTUSLAND NEWSLETTER FOR MEMBERS is published by Ganna Walska Lotusland 695 Ashley Road Santa Barbara, California 93108 805.969.3767 • www.lotusland.org BOARD OF TRUSTEES Larry Durham, President Connie Pearcy, Vice-President Ian M. Fisher, Secretary William M. Daugherty, Treasurer Marc Appleton Debby Baldwin Andrew Chou Geoffrey Crane Isabelle Greene Mason Farrell Dawn Lafitte Suzanne Mathews Joey Pearson Madame Ganna Walska with Dr. Joseph Fraenkel Harold McCormick Eileen Rasmussen Married 1916, deceased 1920 Married 1922, divorced 1931 Susanne Tobey Leland Walmsley Lynda Weinman Continued from page 1 parents and the bulk of his uncle’s estate Peggy Wiley feeling it was her destiny to help relieve as well. Although he was depicted in Crystal Wyatt his physical and emotional pain. His the press as a free-spending bachelor Merryl Brown health declined dramatically in early who spent his time playing polo, Robert J. Emmons 1920, and his death left her exhausted yachting and fox hunting, he had more Arthur R. Gaudi and devastated. substantive interests, too. He collected Kisa Heyer Later that year, Madame met antique books and Buddhist art, and he Anne Jones Michael Towbes Alexander Smith Cochran while crossing founded a literary club “The Elizabethan Carol L. Valentine the Atlantic onboard the Aquitania; she Club” at his alma mater, Yale. Lifetime Honorary Trustees had never met him before, but recog- From the very first day of marriage Gwen Stauffer, M.S. nized him as a man she had previously Madame realized her mistake; he was Executive Director noticed at various New York society not the man she had imagined him to events. He was often referred to in the be. He showered her with gifts and a Steven Timbrook, Ph.D. Director Emeritus press as “the most eligible bachelor generous allowance but did so in a cold in the world” and was the principal business-like manner that she found Anne Dewey, CFRE Director of Development owner of the Alexander Smith and Sons insulting. His selfishness and jealousy, Carpet Company in Yonkers, New as well as his amusement at her Diane Figueroa, CPA York, having inherited a fortune from his Director of Finance unhappiness, were shocking to her; they divorced in 1922. Virginia Hayes, M.A. It was during her marriage to Dr. Curator of the Living Collection Fraenkel that Madame met Harold Michael Iven McCormick, who would become her Director of Grounds and Facilities fourth husband. He was President of Dorothy Shaner the International Harvester Company, Director of Public Programs founded by his father. He was also the Printed by Jano Graphics primary benefactor of the Chicago Lindse Davis, Design Opera Company, and she met with him Printed on recycled and recyclable paper to ask for his assistance to sing with the with vegetable-based inks company. He was not able to secure a role for that season, but she had made a lasting impression on him. Mission Statement McCormick was incredibly kind, We preserve and enhance the unique, historic with a friendly smile and a gregarious estate of Madame Ganna Walska, care for nature. When he met Madame, he and improve its collections, and develop its conservation and horticulture programs, was already separated from his wife, so they educate us, inspire us, and Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who had advance our understanding and appreciation moved to Europe in 1913 to be treated of the importance of plants in our lives Alexander Smith Cochran by Carl Jung. After their initial meeting, and in the life of the planet. Married 1920, divorced 1922 Madame and McCormick developed 3 her to a yoga demonstration hosted by Bernard. Bernard was an explorer, a scholar and an author known for his work on yoga and religious studies. The first American to be initiated into the rites of Tibetan Buddhism, Bernard dubbed himself the “White Lama” and published a book about his travels to Tibet, The Penthouse of the Gods. Madame was not particularly impressed by him, but signed up for daily yoga lessons, and he soon shocked her by professing his love for her and asking her to marry him. When she explained that she was already married, he broke down crying. She was more than 20 years his senior and felt a motherly Harry Grindell-Matthews with Madame Walska Theos Bernard attachment to him. Married 1938, deceased 1941 Married 1942, divorced 1946 At this time, Madame was also thinking about living more pragmatically a close friendship and corresponded could disable an engine from a distance. and finding the best place to avoid the frequently. In 1920, McCormick traveled Grindell-Matthews saw Madame consequences of war should the United to Switzerland to ask Edith for a divorce as the woman of his dreams, but the States become involved, or even invaded. and, in a strange twist of fate, he also feelings were not mutual. In addition to She decided on a self-supporting farm sailed on the Aquitania, the same ship finding him physically unattractive, she or ranch in California. Bernard located that carried Madame and Cochran. was bothered by his egotism, jealousy two properties and convinced Madame Shortly after Edith consented to a and social aspirations. Nevertheless, she to purchase them both with the objec- divorce, McCormick heard of Madame’s was intrigued by what her friends tive of creating a retreat for Tibetan hasty marriage to Cochran and raced to claimed was a potential to save England monks and a Tibetan education center. Paris to try and convince her to get from war and she tolerated a limited In 1941, she purchased Cuesta Linda in divorced and marry him instead. She (and mostly one-sided) correspondence. Montecito, which they renamed refused, but they remained close friends When he proposed marriage, she told Tibetland, and El Capitan, which was and he patiently waited out her him that she would never marry again. renamed Penthouse of the Gods. marriage, carefully limiting any public He became depressed and despondent After Grindell-Matthews died in contact in order to prevent scandal. and could not work and as he was 1941, Bernard once again pressured Once her divorce from Cochran designing a plan to deter air raids that Madame for marriage. Eventually, after was finalized, Madame and McCormick was expected to save London from the a pre-nuptial agreement was signed, married in Paris in 1922, and had a ravages of war, her friends and govern- they wed in Las Vegas in the summer of second ceremony in Chicago in early ment officials begged her to reconsider. 1942. Unfortunately, the marriage didn’t 1923 to satisfy the Illinois law code. He They announced their engagement in fix the strain in their relationship, and purchased the Théâtre des Champs August and married in London in he filed for divorce in 1946.
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