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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.
Lawrence Halprin, the award-winning landscape architect, described Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio, as the place where he "heard trumpets." Curious to learn more about how Wright integrated buildings and landscape I set out to Spring Green, Wisconsin to see for myself...
Read MoreThere is nothing like a good garden gate to welcome us into an outdoor space. Garden gates tell us where to enter the landscape – mark the separation between the outer and inner worlds of the garden - and provide a sort of invitation. Here are a few of my favorite. What's your favorite garden gate?
Read MoreThe December overnight flight to London was uneventful. On my way to the Manor, we passed through the English countryside towns of Farnborough and Basingstoke, then finally through a narrow country lane with tall hedgerows on either side...
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