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Article: Sinjen's magic carpets. (gardening landscape in Lemon Grove, California)
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- Sunset
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- November 1, 1997
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A venerable landscape designer shares his secrets for using ground covers imaginatively
Aladdin and Sinjen have at least two things in common. First, 'both get by fine using a single name. Aladdin jettisoned his surname; Sinjen, his given name. To his friends and clients, he's just Sinjen. Actually he prefers "Sin." The other link between these two legends? Well, both happen to be wizards with carpets. Sinjen's, though, are composed of living plants, not silken threads. A distinctive way of using ground covers has long been one of this landscape designer's trademarks.
Take Polygonum capitatum, whose cloverlike blossoms provide a solid blanket of color from ...