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Article: Year-round Color.
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- October 1, 2000
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Combine the right plants in fall, and you'll have a garden for all seasons
Like a mysterious beauty a great garden never reveals its charms all at once. Instead, it shows its different sides a little at a time, season by season. An ever-changing color palette--perhaps soft pastels in spring, followed by a cheerful summer mix of yellows and whites, then fiery foliage in fall--heightens its allure.
A garden of such enduring beauty takes careful planning. Freeland Tanner of Napa, California, who designed the St. Helena, California, garden pictured on these pages, compares its creation to staging a play "Certain actors are always onstage as the drama ...