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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.
Garden ornaments provide a way to add personality to the landscape, to share a personal passion, and to lend an exotic touch to the garden. In the 1770’s the Kew Royal Botanic Garden added its own exotic garden ornament in the shape of a full sized Chinese-style pagoda. Peacocks greet visitors as...
Read MoreIt is hard not to fall in love with rhododendrons. My dad filled our childhood garden with as many as he could get his hands on. In 1964 Milton Walker captured the feeling well, "To see thousands of [rhododendrons] growing superbly in a natural woodland setting was a sight never to be forgotten.” His passion led him to create the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden in...
Read MoreUnder a blanket of snow, the Brinkman’s Wisconsin yard blends in with the neighborhood. But in summer, their garden explodes into a tropical paradise. Just as Victorian plant hunters used glass houses to cultivate exotics in England, the Brinkman's have built their own glass house to do the same here...
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