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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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Rhody fever

David April 21, 2016

It is hard not to fall in love with rhododendrons. My dad filled our childhood garden with as many as he could get his hands on. In 1964 Milton Walker captured the feeling well, "To see thousands of [rhododendrons] growing superbly in a natural woodland setting was a sight never to be forgotten.” His passion led him to create the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden in...

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