Article: Hard work turns a vision into a real garden: In northern California, Don Phillips fell in love with 118 acres of land and enhanced its beauty.(Features)(Homefront)

Byline: Dick Tracy Special to The Christian Science Monitor

SIERRA CITY, CALIF. -- Some landscape architects insist that the entryway to a garden is nearly as important as what you will find inside its boundaries. It heightens the interest and prepares the visitor for the splendor that lies within.

That's particularly true of Big Springs Garden, which lies nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California, a few miles from the rustic community of Sierra City.

Visitors approaching from either direction will be driving along the edge of the North Fork of the Yuba River where the scenery is reminiscent of the famed Yosemite ...

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