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Garden featuring lush green plantings and a flower bed surrounded by stone.

View of a garden in front of a home with two large bright pink-red blooms of crepe myrtles surrounded by lush green plantings.

Light purple and deep purple blooms of bearded irises standing tall against smaller flowers in a garden.

Light purple Wisteria in bloom hanging in clusters from the roof of a wooden deck.

Bright red tulips in bloom arranged at the edge of a garden.

Lady Jane tulips in bloom with alternating pink and white petals surrounded by tall leaves.

Bursts of colorful tulips and irises blooming in a garden.

Blush pink Cymbidium orchids with deep pink freckles and yellow centers.

Akebono tulip with bright orange striped petals, surrounded by small deep blue-purple Veronica flowers.

Photinia with red and green leaves and bursts of small white flowers in clusters.

Malva flower with light pink petals that have a bright purple center blooms in the opening of a wooden fence.

Two overlapping Calla lilies, lit softly and in stark white bloom against deep green leaves.

Bright purple clusters of Hardenbergia flowers.

Lady of the Dawn rose with blush pink petals that wave and curl.

Bright red poppy with yellow center being visited by a bee.

Bright orange alstromeria flower in bloom being visited by a bee.

Photo of a young Kent Bradford planting in his garden.

Kent Bradford and Barbara Zadra posing together on a bike in their garden.

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448 La Rue Road
Davis, CA 95616

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