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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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Happy spring!

David April 1, 2016

“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...

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In Chinese, Picturesque Tags Riverside Park, Cherry blossoms, Magnolia, Chicago Botanical Garden, Chicago, New York, Suzhou, Lingering Garden, Pan Gate Garden, Xu Tai, Calvert Vaux, Samuel Parsons
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