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| Magnificent garden: formal yet inviting |
| Most people wouldn't survey 12 acres of land in rocky, hilly New Hampshire-legendary for its bone-chilling winters and abbreviated growing season-and think Edwardian garden |
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| Tweaking Time |
| Jeanne and Peter Holliday transformed their simple Georgia cottage into an elegant antebellum home by the addition of a graceful sweeping staircase that leads into the garden and its formal geometry of the simple four-square plan. |
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| Going with the Flow |
| Roaring Fork, the Crystal, and Frying Pan; Tincup and Hygiene. You have to hand it to Colorado’s first citizens, who gave the state’s rivers and towns such colorful names. |
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| Team Spirit Turns the Wheel |
| Austin, Texas, is one of the country's entrepreneurial hotspots, personified by Bart Knaggs and Patrick Kirwin, who helped Bart actualize the garden he had created in his imagination. |
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| english garden on the prairie |
| After visiting gardens in England, they came back to their 80x100-foot lot in Wilmette, approximately 18 miles north of downtown Chicago, with fresh eyes. |
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| aeoniums |
| Patrick Anderson’s garden is very much an extension of his life, and he brings to its cultivation the same energy and passion that he brings to his work for a local AIDS charity hospice. |
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| Horticultural Healing |
| Sue Wert is a woman with a vision, which is handy when you’ve got 14 acres in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to shape into a home and garden. |
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| Under THe Umbrian Sun |
| In Chicago, the weather isn't always warm and sunny, but in Umbria, Italy, the view and weather are perfect for a second home. |
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| Astounding Amaryllis |
| There are more amaryllis than the standard red or pink bulbs. They come in green and peach too! |
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| Beyond the comfort zone |
| Plant collecting has taken front row center in the Dennis Shrader/Bill Smith household on Long Island. |
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| The BIg Picture |
| A beautiful Tudor home in the Chicago area deserves to have a garden and landscape that matches its English heritage. |
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| Comfort Alfresco |
| When you looked out the kitchen at first all that was there was a concrete slab - now there's a beautiful garden escape. |
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| MOdeled on Memories |
| Many people like to incorporate fond memories into their home and gardens. That's exactly what these Seattle natives did. |
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| Simply Sedums |
| Easy to take care of and adding color to your garden all year long, it's an easy choice to plant sedums this year. |
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| Auriculas |
| Auriculas are truly floral antiques, grown since the mid-1500s by aristocratics and artisans alike. |
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| Shell Shocked |
| Every house has a story, but the unique decoration inside and outside this century-old Austin bungalow is more than usually the result of the residents' personal history. |
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| Seattle Squeeze |
| In Seattle, Margo and Gary Bennett found a property that was, as Margo says, spec-built on the site of a dilapidated bungalow that had been demolished. |
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