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Sensory Delights: Water, Color, and Fragrance in a Santa Fe Courtyard

In Richard and Beverly Armstrong’s rural Santa Fe County courtyard, a bamboo pipe spills water into a hand-carved granite basin, creating a soothing sound and providing water for hummingbirds. The garden palette includes yellow sedums, reddish orange pineleaf penstemon (P. pinifolius), yellow ‘Moonshine’ yarrow, deep violet English lavender, gold-banded porcupine grass (Miscanthus sinensis ‘Strictus’), and light pink Penstemon palmeri with sweet clover-honey fragrance.

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