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The smooth red bark and twisting limbs of a California manzanita
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One Acre of Wild California: The Lester Rowntree Native Plant Garden

Hidden inside Carmel’s Mission Trail Nature Preserve, a volunteer-tended acre of manzanita, sage, and wildflowers honors Lester Rowntree — the self-taught botanist who remade American horticulture from a cottage in the Carmel Highlands.

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