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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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Wang's penjing

David June 2, 2017

In 1772, William Chambers wrote of Chinese gardens, ”Their scenes of terror are composed of gloomy woods, … The trees are ill formed..., and seemingly torn to pieces by the violence of tempests.”  Perhaps no where are these scenes of “ill formed” trees more present than in the ancient art of penjing.  If you enjoy Penjing, a scholar garden is the place for you and this collection is dazzling....

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In Chinese Tags chinese garden, Suzhou, China, Penjing, Wang Xiachen, Humble Administrator's Garden
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