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A Tribute to Muriel: Honoring a Fuchsia Hybridizer's Legacy

The spirit of Muriel Waltz, a famous 1940s–60s fuchsia hybridizer who ran a commercial nursery on this Lake County property, still haunts the land — and Juliet Wood loves it. She retained most of Muriel's plants, built a stone perimeter wall, and installed a gate exactly where Muriel had envisioned it, say surviving friends.

The gate is a tree-of-life design in hand-forged steel and hand-tinted ceramic tiles — a trademark of gate designer-maker Brian Kennedy. The gate's blooms are appropriately fuchsia buds.

The Freedom of Craft by Brian Kennedy, Lake County, California (707/928-5124)

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