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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Xmas!
I grew up in San Antonio, Texas. The area is the hill country - very rolling and green; full of rivers and creeks to ride with inner tubes in the summer. In the winter, the trees lose their leaves, but without the fanfair of seasonal color - one day they're green, then they're brown, then they're gone. Now I live here in Southern California, the land of perpetual green. But, if you look closely, you can find seasonal color here. And if you do some research and proper planning, you can have a tiny taste of what people on the East Coast enjoy - the magical shift from fall to winter that is full of blazing color. We just have it in small doses. I can always count on Nandina domestica to get done up for the holiday parties in reds, oranges, and touches of yellow - and to be festooned with the brightest scarlett berries ... somebody didn't teach little Nandina how to dress, and we're all happier for it. I have nandina partnered with the architectural Agave weberi in my front garden, and all year long she's a delicate foil to the agave's strict form. Then winter rolls around, and the combination of the smooth blue surface of the agave with the overdressed exhuberance of the nandina is truly a joy to the world!
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