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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.
Visiting Innisfree in Millbrook, New York, is like stepping into another world. Actually many different worlds. This amazing landscape uses Chinese garden techniques in a very modern American context. Innisfree has been on my garden visit list for some time. I was intrigued by people’s description of the garden. It is considered one of the “world’s ten best gardens”...
Read MoreThis garden offers a snap-shot of the history of Cuba: it recalls the ambition in the 1920’s to create a beautiful city; it remembers the roaring 1950’s modernist movement, and also the 1959 revolution; it reminds us of the important role of theater to create a sense of community...
Read MoreLawrence 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...
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