Viviane de Faitaud has grown up alone at her family?s ch?teau for her father the Marquis de Valaine lives at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles. After a hailstorm destroys the ch?teau?s orchards gardens and fields an ambitious young Welshman David Stronach accepts the commission to plan new gardens in the hope of making his name as a landscape designer. However the love that blossoms between them is doomed: Viviane is betrothed to a duke and David is forced to leave the property. In the aftermath Viviane enters an unhappy marriage and moves to Versailles while David embarks upon a mission to China to procure the secrets of tea-growing. There he is inspired by the story of the Blue Rose a fable of impossible love. Can he and Viviane - a world apart - ever hope to rekindle what they had together?
