Garden Palette: In Winter, Plantaholics Are Planning Perfection

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Wintry days and our withering drought have effectively relegated me and other area gardeners to little activity beyond that of wistful dreaming. But gardening is a down-and-dirty sport, short on patience and long on experimentation, whose players are always in search of inspiration.

So, climate be damned, many of us are gardening vicariously -- spending dawn-to-dusk hours leafing through the pages of books and catalogs that flourish despite the drought -- all the while hoping for an early, wet spring.

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Garden Palette: In Winter, Plantaholics Are Planning Perfection

Since my move to Santa Fe on a hot June day in 1973, hours too plentiful to count have been spent poring over such wish books, following by the expenditure of dollars too numerous to estimate. Through it all, I have wrestle...

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