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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.

"Most beautiful garden" (re-opens)

David August 20, 2020

What is an Indo-Persian Garden? And how did one find it’s way to Yonkers, New York? My recent visit to Untermyer Gardens was a refreshing example of the power of finding beauty in different cultures....

Gothic Bridge, 94th street.

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Glen Span Bridge (102nd street)

SE Reservoir Bridge. 1865.

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Driprock bridge, 1860.

Bridge No. 27. SW Reservoir.

Let it snow!

David November 15, 2018

Calvert Vaux, the visionary architect behind New York City’s Central Park, would have marked his birthday on Dec 20, 1824. So this seems an appropriate time to celebrate his Central Park bridges. Each one is unique; an ornament tucked into the broader landscape.... made all the more beautiful by fresh snowfall...

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A garden path

David May 16, 2017

I learn something new every time I visit a garden. What struck me the most about Russel Wright’s home and studio, Manitoga, was how he used garden paths as his organizing principle for the landscape. Everything is selected and arranged so that the visitor has a deliberate experience...

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