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What makes one house or another appeal to us? The architecture? The details? The location? “I finally came to the conclusion that it is always about the landscaping,” my friend Jane Green told me. That summer I never saw Jane without garden gloves and straw hat, working the soil around her cottage that sits on its now-pampered lot across from the local park. What resulted was a whimsical mixture of wild country and styled English garden. Botanical surprises are tucked into the landscape, including all sorts of teapots topping every post in the picket fence—the sort of stuff that turns home into wow!

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