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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.
It 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...
Read MoreThis garden offers a snap-shot of the history of Cuba: it recalls the ambition in the 1920’s to create a beautiful city; it remembers the roaring 1950’s modernist movement, and also the 1959 revolution; it reminds us of the important role of theater to create a sense of community...
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