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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.
“April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote;... I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, ... and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares?" Barbara Kingsolver. Read more...
Read MoreWhile outside of Beijing, I paid a visit to Yuan Ming, the old summer palace. I expected a beautiful royal garden. Descriptions led me to expect ruins surrounded by a garden; how beautiful I thought. Instead I found something quite different. An unsettling reminder of the complex history between China and the West...
Read MoreTo visit Duke Farms in New Jersey is to experience a place that is coming full circle. And the Hay Barn in particular captures the history of this place: the early farming days of JB Duke, elements of a picturesque plan, the style and glamour of Doris Duke, and the return of the garden back to native plants...
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