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The good garden blog is about sharing garden inspiration and ideas from historic gardens around the world and some right next door. Garden stories explore garden history, design, and the garden people behind famous and not-so-famous gardens. My garden photographs span dozens of places across 5 continents. Please join me in celebrating good garden design.
The Cienfuegos Botanical Garden was not on our itinerary. One of our fellow travelers found it in her Lonely Planet guide book. A "94-hectare botanic garden, near the Pepito Tey sugar mill, 17km east of Cienfuegos” – seemed too good to pass up. What we found blew us away...
Read MoreWith the recent passing of Fidel Castro, Cuba is back in the news – a good time to reflect on Cuba’s history. What better way to explore this than by through a garden - the Cienfuegos Botanical Garden. Several of the Garden’s formal features grabbed my attention. An abandoned pergola and a grand allee of palms...
Read MoreThis garden offers a snap-shot of the history of Cuba: it recalls the ambition in the 1920’s to create a beautiful city; it remembers the roaring 1950’s modernist movement, and also the 1959 revolution; it reminds us of the important role of theater to create a sense of community...
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