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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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Dragon canal

David July 28, 2016

Gardens are continually evolving.  Sometimes it is about fine-tuning, other times, a complete redesign is needed to reflect a new passion.  The Giardino Bardini in Florence, Italy is a great example.  What started as a medieval cloister garden became an Italian renaissance landscape and then an Anglo-Chinese garden...

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In Picturesque, Italian renaissance Tags Villa Bardini, Giardino Bardini, Florence, Italy
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