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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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A space age garden

David December 28, 2016

In 1962 John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.  His passing this month is a good excuse to remember the Space Age and Atomic Era and how this period influenced gardening.  The Sunken Garden we see above at West of the Lake Gardens in Manitowoc, Wisconsin provides a great example...

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In Modernist, Gardenesque Tags West of the Lake Gardens, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Ruth St. John, Ruth and John West
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