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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.
Immigrants have a significant impact on US gardens. In Alexia Campbell’s The Atlantic article she explains, “the landscaping industry has become the largest employer of foreign, non-agricultural guest workers.” Some things never change. While Campbell’s article was written last year, it could have been written one hundred years ago. Take Fujitaro Kubota for example. In 1907, Kubota emigrated to the US...
Read MoreWater features, like other aspects of the garden, can be a source of competition. One of my favorite "water fight" examples starts at Paleis Het Loo in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Het Loo boasts "the highest spouting fountain in Europe"...
Read MorePulling into Riverbend in Kohler, Wisconsin is like entering another world. This arts and crafts style English manor house with its picturesque setting takes us back 100 years. It provides a case study in how to create a garden that looks older than it actually is...
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