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Western Garden Design Awards: Winning Ideas from Sunset's Contest

As winners in Sunset's contest prove, a great garden design presents plants beautifully, extends the home outdoors, and expresses the owner’s taste. Judges selected the best from several hundred entries by landscape architects and designers across the West. Each garden is ripe with usable ideas.

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