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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 MoreGardens are great ways to experience nature – beautiful plants, butterflies and birds. They restore our minds and souls; they lift our spirits. They connect us to history and culture. But my recent garden visit also reminded me that gardens are good business...
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...
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