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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.

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A pagoda and a peacock

David April 28, 2016

Garden ornaments provide a way to add personality to the landscape, to share a personal passion, and to lend an exotic touch to the garden.  In the 1770’s the Kew Royal Botanic Garden added its own exotic garden ornament in the shape of a full sized Chinese-style pagoda.   Peacocks greet visitors as...

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In Gardenesque Tags Kew Garden, Kew Royal Botanic Garden, London, England, UK, William Chambers
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