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An elegantly landscaped estate was designed to frame views, offer tranquility, and provide numerous spaces with a variety of experiences.
Long, meandering bluestone paths interconnect formal garden spaces with natural woodlands. World-famous bronze sculpture provides personality to an otherwise pastoral place. Groundcovers of Pachysandra, Hosta, and Heuchera are planted en masse to firmly shape garden spaces. A stone wall retains the generous main bluestone terrace. Though it resides a half-mile from the water, the home is positioned perfectly to provide a captivating view of Lake Minnetonka.
Over many years the evolution of this home and landscape has earned Windsor Companies numerous design awards from the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association and the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Photos by Paul Crosby
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Caroline Galvan wrote:
Wild Ideas Garden Design Hi - i think it may be pachysandra terminalis - possibly 'variagata' but it's difficult to id without a close up. It's certainly the type of situation I would use it in for the gardens I design in London. Hope that helps.
Susanne
Wild Ideas Garden Design, London, UK
Susanne
Wild Ideas Garden Design, London, UK
What Houzz contributors are saying:
added by Debra Prinzing to Garden Design Essentials: Positive-Negative Space
Two beautiful, multitrunked shade trees gain prominence in this garden, thanks to the way the bluestone patio has been situated to emphasize their inherent elegance. Patios almost always read as the positive, more dominant form in a landscape, but here, the patio is a backdrop to the trees. The entire scene reads as harmonious and balanced, and I think it is because the patio's generous scale feels like a theatrical stage, with the trees as star performers.
added by Becky Harris to Garden Tour: Formal French Design on Lake Minnetonka
Along with the boulder walls, another modern sculpture and elm trees articulate the boundaries of a large bluestone terrace right off the house and serve as a transitional space between the house and the yard. Rectilinear lines articulate the formal spaces but are softened by plants. Pachysandra serves as a blanket of green immediately surrounding the terrace, while Annabelle hydrangeas bloom right beyond the walls.
added by Becky Harris to 5 Amazing Landscapes Across the U.S.
Entertainment space and sculpture placement helped drive the design, as did the spectacular existing trees.
What Houzzers are commenting on:
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un disegno romantico
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Fabulous
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very nice formal-ish backyard
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Dining patio
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Flower bed
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tiles
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beautiful and low maintenance patio
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Rey wall
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garden room
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Outdoors
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stone fence with bluestone cap
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Trees?
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Landscaping
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Patio
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Groundcover
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elegant
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Pretty patio
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integrated use of green space and patio
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Back yard
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The stonework, greenery, plant holders.
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raised patio
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Path
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brick courtyard
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Just pretty
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Beautiful! Would like this as my front yard.
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Yard
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Slate Stairs
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Gardens
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I totally want to curl up in that chair and read a book,
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trees
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Underneath the trees
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Groundcovers of Pachysandra, Hosta, and Heuchera are planted en masse to firmly shape garden spaces.
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Wall
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retaining wall with capstone, path, ivy
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surfaces
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Love this rock
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Beautiful trees love shaded areas to sit
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Love
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garden
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ืืฆืจ ืืคื
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Everything!
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lush!
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Love
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Steps
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Reminds me of something spiritual.
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path and borders.
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Garden
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Elevated patio concept?
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statue
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Stone, seating, gc, wall and steps. Shade of silver maples (or elms?)
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stonework
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Sculpture Gardens on a Minnesota Lakefront
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gorgeous patio with hydrangea, stone wall, steps
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use of stone
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Like this look
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Planting areas
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How elegant & relaxing, m-m-m-m-m.
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Steps, wall and flagstones create sense of peace
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grondbedekker
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garden
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Landscaping
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Annabelle hydrangea
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platform
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Yard
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Front yard?
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bluestone
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Steps
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Yard
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Split level garden
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This kind of feel ask plants for our front yard. Step and front porch
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Garden
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d sculpture
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Ground over is good on upper level
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Like the idea of stepping up onto a patio
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Vine
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landscape
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Stone
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Like
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Just love!
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retainer walls and steps
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the fance n area
added by sophiesdichter to Front Yard (9 days ago)
Annabelle hydrangea starts green, turns white and then purple in fall!
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Bluestone
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Backyard
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Pachydermis
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Ground cover
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mimi's flower pots
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diseรฑo de jardin
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Great trees and landscaping
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Annabelle Hydrangea
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Jardin
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jg jg
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Big trees
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love combination snowball plant with grey stone w trees
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Lanscape
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Simple!!!
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Stone
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backyard idea
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Can adopt this for CG villa exterior
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serenityB-) this is so peaceful...a day with a good book
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Flagstone
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Jardin
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stone wall and landscape
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Garden
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Florida home
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Patio idea
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Garden
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Raised patio
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Me encanta
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I want trees this big
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garden
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stone color
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scape
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patio
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Raised room
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trees
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Love
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gorgeous
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Backyard
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Beautiful
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Plants
added by David Bartsch Landscape Architecture LLC to terraces (14 days ago)
great use of slight elevation change and plantings to create transitions and separate places.
added by rheath95 to Landscape Ideas (14 days ago)
I like the light green ground cover
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Trees
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Everything
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openness
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Garden B and B
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patio with cover? instead of deck?
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love the large trees/stone patio/hydrangeas
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Landscape
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this colour and look?
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Cc
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raised patio
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:)
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Wowza
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love the use of pchysandra and hydrangea!!
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tea seat1
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الحوش
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Flower beds
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Outdoor space
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Like the ground cover and hydrangea. Nice, natural feeling.
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Para tajin
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Nice!
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Bkyrd
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big open patio
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Sitting area
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Love the look.
added by phyothawdar to phyothawdar's ideas (3 weeks ago)
thit pin gyi tway kyar mhar nay yar pay htar tar ka aye chan mu ko khan sar ya sae tal
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Garden
added by michkg76 to Exterior Ideas (3 weeks ago)
if we can't do a teared deck maybe something like this
added by julieaggrey to Exterior Ideas (3 weeks ago)
An elegantly landscaped estate was designed to frame views, offer tranquility, and provide numerous spaces with a variety of experiences. Long, meandering bluestone paths interconnect formal garden spaces with natural woodlands. World-famous bronze sculpture provides personality to an otherwise pastoral place. Groundcovers of Pachysandra, Hosta, and Heuchera are planted en mas... more ยป
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Pathways
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retaining wall
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lov
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Flowers
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ground covers
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Nice
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Gorgeous patio and walkway
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Like the look of this garden path
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Lovely plan
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Possible front yard idea. Lifet land up and build 2nd layer on front lawn
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landscape
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living amongst the trees
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Statuary, greenery, secondary patio
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Beauty
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Pretty setup
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like clean ground cover for front of house by garage
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everything
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Hill in back yard
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side yard
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Pretty
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Shade and sun. More formal
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Like
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tuin
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Garden, patio area
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center trees
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Pathway paving
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A little formal but reminds me of home
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love the stone wall
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the pachysandra around the trees
added by smcvittie to bathroom ideas (4 weeks ago)
the blanket of pacysandra around trees
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Up the steps on the way to the pool on the hill.
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Patio
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Beautiful back yard
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trees stone
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stones
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hydrangea
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Jardin
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Smells like Australia
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Pecan trees and hydrangeas
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I like the large trees for shade as well as the stone patio sitting area, that allows for sunlight and multiple walk ways. I also like the choice of plants used in this design.
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