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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 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 MoreThis month marks the anniversary of the death of pioneer Rachel Carson. Her book Silent Spring launched the modern environmental movement and is considered one of the most influential books of the 20th century. She spent nearly all of her adult summers in Maine, a place that inspired her work. This "garden path" shows us some of what Carson loved so much about Maine...
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