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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.
“April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote;... I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, ... and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares?" Barbara Kingsolver. Read more...
Read MoreHappy Lunar New Year! In the spirit of the holiday, join me on this visit to one of the oldest scholar gardens in Suzhou, China – Master of Nets Garden. A wonderful example of what can be done in a relatively small space.
Read MoreNobody does garden doors quite like these Chinese scholars. They use them to frame compositions of plants, mark the separation between sections, and guide us through the landscape. Their shape, width, and construction have been refined over millennia based on....
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