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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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Another world

David June 9, 2016

Visiting Innisfree in Millbrook, New York, is like stepping into another world.  Actually many different worlds.  This amazing landscape uses Chinese garden techniques in a very modern American context. Innisfree has been on my garden visit list for some time.  I was intrigued by people’s description of the garden.  It is considered one of the “world’s ten best gardens”...

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In Chinese, Picturesque, Modernist Tags Innisfree, Millbrook, New York, Kate Kerin, Walter Beck, Marion Burt Beck, Lester Collins
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