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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.
Close up from Roberto Burle Marx's design for the Minister’s Rooftop Garden. Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro, 1938.
Maquette for the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine Beach House, Santa Barbara, California, 1948. Architect: Oscar Niemeyer, Garden by Roberto Burle Marx.
A portion of Roberto Burle Marx's design for the Clemente Gomes residence garden. 1979.
Piece of Roberto Burle Marx's garden plan for Walther Moreira Salles residence (now Instituto Moreira Salles). Rio de Janeiro, 1951.
Roberto Burle Marx design for Parque del Este, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956.
Roberto Burle Marx design for elements of Garden of the Franciso Pignatari residence, São Paulo, 1956
Close-up view of Roberto Burle Marx's garden design for the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine Beach House. Santa Barbara, California, 1948.
Portion of the Roberto Burle Marx design for Biscayne Boulevard, with Haruyoshi Ono. Miami, 1988.
The Rio Olympics may have ended, but we have another month to visit “Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist” at The Jewish Museum in New York City. The exhibit exposes us to Burle Marx, the pioneering landscape architect who brought us modern landscape design...
Read MoreWhat happens when a successful lifestyle designer takes control of an abandoned quarry? The designer was Russel Wright and the site was the Old King’s quarry. It was there that he created his home and studio: Manitoga...
Read More“The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.” - Frank Lloyd-Wright Among the things that Wisconsin is famous for it is Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin, that has most intensely captured my attention...
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