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"Cate Blanchett, Blake Lively, Colin Farrell, and Other Stars Discuss Their Gardens\nGetting down and dirty in the gardens of Cate Blanchett, Blake Lively, Colin Farrell, Heidi Klum, and other stars\nWhile standing a stone's throw from a trickling fountain at the Four Seasons Hotel during a stately BAFTA tea, AD asked Cate Blanchett whether she gardens. \"We have a vegetable garden,\" Blanchett noted. \"And we have the most unbelievable crop of cherry tomatoes. My mother has a green thumb, so, hopefully, as I progress into my later years, I'll have that too. . . . \"\n\"I'm going to be honest. I love my garden,\" said British designer Jenny Packham at the Four Seasons for BAFTA. \"But I don't do it myself. The last thing the gardener said to me was, \u2018Jenny, you have to remember to water it. It needs water. Could you do it sometimes, please?' That's my job.\"\nDuring the BAFTA tea, Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes told AD they had yet to reconstruct the garden at the estate that he and his wife, Lady Emma Kitchener Fellowes, are restoring. \"At the moment, we've got woods and a river and it is a mishmash of different periods and water and meadows. Eventually, we're going to make an Elizabethan knot garden,\" he said. \"The trouble is, we have deer and they eat everything except box hedges. So an Elizabethan knot garden is about our only option.\"\nActress Jane Seymour also answered over tea at BAFTA. \"The garden is huge,\" she said. \"We grow all our own organic foods. We have two kinds of avocados, every kind of citrus you've ever known, bananas, apples, and peaches. We have everything including chickens. We also grow English roses, pygmy palms, and giant redwoods. We mulch and do the whole thing.\"\nBefore the Michael Kors runway show, actress Blake Lively indicated that she has plans to plant truffles. \"At Blackberry Farm in Knoxville, Tennessee, they have truffle dogs,\" recalled Lively. \"Truffles yield after five to ten years. So my idea is to plant truffles and to then get a truffle dog in about five years.\"\n\nLively pictured here at a Michael J. Fox Foundation event.\nModel Heidi Klum was promoting her Dr. Scholl's DreamWalk line, an insole pad that helps make stiletto heels less painful, when AD met her at the penthouse of the Gansevoort Park Avenue. \"I love a beautiful garden,\" she said. \"Frangipani flowers, gardenias, I love all of the flowers that smell wonderful. By the way, there is a rose named for me in Germany. It's fuchsia, and it's called Heidi Klum. I actually smuggled a few into this country. You're not supposed to bring fruit and plants, but I brought my rose.\"\n\nKlum pictured here at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.\nActress Tilda Swinton, attending the Cinema Society and W magazine debut of her vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive, mentioned that her gardening revolves around the kitchen. \"When I arrive home on Saturday, I get to do my favorite thing of the year, which is to choose the seeds for my kitchen garden,\" she said. \"This weekend is all about deciding what to plant. We've planted the flowers already. So we just need to plant the vegetables.\"\nDuring the premiere of director Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac Vol. I at the Museum of Modern Art, we asked French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg about gardening. \"I have a garden at a country house that's very special,\" she explained. \"The owner before me was a crazy gardener. And thank God for her, because we have a wonderful garden. But it's no thanks to me.\"\nOn the red carpet at the Golden Globes, Zooey Deschanel revealed that she enjoys nibbling from her garden. \"I actually have a garden of edibles,\" she said. \"Tangerines, oranges, lemons, plums, and peaches. Somebody does the gardening for me. I don't really have time. But I love the result.\"\nArriving at the Ziegfeld Theater for the debut of his film Winter's Tale, actor Colin Farrell told AD he does have a garden. \"I have one that is almost magazine worthy,\" he boasted. \"It has to do with Tim Curry, who lived in my house. Tim Curry is a purveyor of properties: He inhabits a house for two years and does a lot of restructuring work, and my house was one of those. Tim lived there for two years. The back garden is really beautiful. He did an amazing job.\"\nStylist Brad Goreski discussed the gardens at his Los Angeles home from the front row of the Monique Lhuillier show. \"I don't garden, but I'm really good at watching the gardener do it,\" he said. \"The look is modeled after the Getty Museum. We have tiers, lots of roses, and lots of individual cactus, and it is mossy in the front. And there is a grand staircase up to the house and seven fountains.\"\n\nGoreski is pictured here with model Lydia Hearst.\n\"I do like to garden,\" said Joan Jett backstage at the Red Dress Collection runway show. \"I live on the ocean and I don't have land, so I'm working with a terrace and indoor plants. I have some trees\u2014I'm trying to figure out how to grow some inside. I grow some herbs, basil, and cat grass for my animals.\"\nIn Los Angeles for the Diane Von Furstenberg \"Journey of a Dress\" exhibition party, supermodel Coco Rocha noted that her big job is to \"take away weeds in my garden.\" Apparently, designer Zac Posen has also played a role. \"He sent me tons of bulbs for my garden, she said. \"They grow, and then Bambi takes them all. Bunnies and chipmunks also take them. Zac Posen is feeding the animals.\"\n\nRocha is pictured here at the AmfAR New York Gala.\n\"I'm more like a curator than a gardener,\" model Erin Wasson revealed at the DVF f\u00EAte in Los Angeles. \"I like everything to be a bit unbridled in my garden. And I do everything myself. I've got a bunch of herbs and potted plants and succulents on the roof. I've got eucalyptus trees and flowers. It's a lot of work, but it's fun. It's meditative.\"\nAttending the Audi Golden Globes event at Cecconi's, actress Betsy Brandt told AD she's a gardener: \"I don't have a big yard because I live in L.A.,\" she offered. \"But I do grow herbs. When we were in New Mexico [filming Breaking Bad], everybody grew rosemary like it was going out of style. Which is something I felt like I could handle. I actually like to cook, so I grab rosemary and put it in my piecrust or whatever I'm doing.\"\nDuring the Audi party, actor Jesse Metcalfe, who played a gardener on Desperate Housewives, noted that he knows some gardening moves in real life. \"I grew up working for my stepfather's landscaping business,\" said Metcalfe. \"So, yeah, of course I know something. Women still ask me to come trim their hedges. . . . I still get that.\"\nAD encountered Bel Air resident Kathy Hilton on her way into the DVF event. \"If loving gardens means that I'm a gardener,\" she said, \"then I'm a gardener. I have all the little signs made up [for identification]. I have fruit trees mixed in as well. And I bought seeds from Versailles that Meryl Streep donated to an auction. They're really pretty, beautiful. And what a cool auction item to win.\"\n\nHilton is pictured here with her husband, Rick.\n\"I am not a gardener,\" model Molly Sims mentioned at DVF. \"But I love landscaping. Pretty, but not crazy, because you have to be able to maintain it. When it becomes crazy, it becomes too expensive, unmaintainable. I love hydrangeas, and I have put them everywhere.\"\nWe discussed gardening with actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw at the Beverly Hills Hotel during Essence magazine's Black Women in Hollywood lunch. \"I love gardening, but at the moment I don't have a garden,\" said Mbatha-Raw. \"I just have a backyard. The jasmine has just started to come out, and it smells amazing. And my mum did a degree in botany, so I think I have green fingers in my genes.\"\n\nMbatha-Raw is pictured here at a Vanity Fair Young Hollywood party.\nBefore a tented lunch on the beach in Santa Monica sponsored by Fiji Water for the IFC Film Independent Spirit Awards, Nebraska's June Squibb answered, \"I have a terrace out here, and I garden on my terrace. Right now there are beautiful blooms. I have catnip because I've had cats. And I have a jade plant, a very big one, and mother-in-law's tongues [sanseveria, or snake plant.\"\n\nSquibb is pictured here at the Women in Film Pre-Oscar Party.\nSpeaking to AD during the Global Green gala, singer Michelle Branch described a functional oasis. \"I have a really extensive backyard garden, and we grow a lot of food,\" she said. \"We have chickens, and we compost and recycle. The minute there is a crack of sun, the chickens are up. It's kind of painful, I'm not going to lie. But it's good for the environment, and it reminds me not to stay out too late.\"\nIn a back room at the UNICEF Ball at the Beverly Wilshire, actress Alyssa Milano spoke about her love of gardening. \"I have a rose garden and grow all sorts of organic vegetables. My husband actually built the vegetable garden when I was pregnant with my son. So during my entire pregnancy, I harvested. And every single day after he was born, we'd go outside and garden.\"\nAttending the Art of Elysium f\u00EAte before the Golden Globes Awards, Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood told the Inquisitive Guest that he doesn't garden. \"But I've been thinking about building an above-ground herb garden,\" he said. \"Potentially with some vegetables as well. And no, not like Middle Earth,\" he added, to clarify.\nAt the SAG Awards, Patricia Arquette perked up at the question. \"I am a gardener,\" she declared. \"I just had kale and arugula from my garden last night. And I'm very into bees. I am fighting the neonic pesticides that were banned in Europe but haven't been banned here. [Bees exposed to them are unable to gather pollen.] We've got to save our honeybees.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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