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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.
"The traveler returning from Italy, full of the ineffable Italian garden-magic, knows vaguely that the enchantment exists; that he has been under its spell, and that it is more potent, more enduring, more intoxicating to every sense..." Edith Wharton, 1904.
Read MoreThe December overnight flight to London was uneventful. On my way to the Manor, we passed through the English countryside towns of Farnborough and Basingstoke, then finally through a narrow country lane with tall hedgerows on either side...
Read MoreNobody does garden doors quite like these Chinese scholars. They use them to frame compositions of plants, mark the separation between sections, and guide us through the landscape. Their shape, width, and construction have been refined over millennia based on....
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