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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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The Lingering Garden. Suzhou, China.
The Lingering Garden. Suzhou, China.
The Humble Administrator’s Garden. Suzhou, China
The Humble Administrator’s Garden. Suzhou, China
Surging Wave Pavilion Garden. Suzhou, China.
Surging Wave Pavilion Garden. Suzhou, China.

 

​The Lingering Garden, Suzhou, China.
​The Lingering Garden, Suzhou, China.

 

Surging Wave Pavilion Garden. Suzhou, China.
Surging Wave Pavilion Garden. Suzhou, China.
Surging Wave Pavilion, Suzhou, China.
Surging Wave Pavilion, Suzhou, China.
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China doorways

David December 11, 2015

Nobody does garden doors quite like these Chinese scholars.  They use them to frame compositions of plants, mark the separation between sections, and guide us through the landscape.  Their shape, width, and construction have been refined over millennia based on....

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In Chinese Tags Lingering Garden, Surging Wave Pavilion garden, Humble Administrator's Garden, Surging Wave Garden, Suzhou, China
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