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"Jessica Lange\nThe Actress Returns to Her Minnesota Roots and Imagines an Endless Spring\n\"When I started, I had no idea what a compulsion it would become,\" oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange (with her dog pine) says of the gardens she planted at her Stillwater, Minnesota, house, which she shares with actor and writer Sam Shepard and her children.\nThe couple's victorian house overlooks the terraced garden. \"From the top of the hill all the way down it was scrub. I cleared everything out, working around the maples, elms and oaks,\" says Lange.\nAn antique copper frog ornaments the Monet-inspired garden.\nHerbs border the dining terrace above the river. \"On summer nights we eat there,\" Lange says. \"Those evenings are close to perfection.\" Daughter Hannah's prairie-themed garden, rear, includes plantings of monardas.\nBlooming water lilies.\nLimestone steps lead to the patio. the stone came from quarries around the St. Croix river valley.\nThe birdhouse in older daughter Shura's garden was modeled after her wedding cake.\nLange in the gazebo. \"It took nine years. I planted. I moved things. I weeded. it was great,\" she says. \"I conceived something out of nothing.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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