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Jane and Bob Hendrix's Breckenridge garden is alive with color. Each year, Jane decides upon a color scheme for the annuals and then weaves these throughout her perennials to tie the whole garden together.	Jane prides herself on her Delphiniums -- most of which she started from premium New Zealand seed stock and all of which she and her husband Bob carefully stake each summer to protect them from falling over due to wind, rain or hail.
Focal points throughout the garden include individual containers and seating areas. These provide both visual destinations as you walk through the garden as well as moments for pausing along the way.	The Hendrix garden wraps all the way around the house and each planting area is linked together with mulched paths or lawn areas.
Foxglove, Asiatic Lilies, poppies, cosmos and pansies cascade out of containers and tumble together in larger beds creating Jane's signature look that she calls “Alpine Color Collage.”	Most of the Hendrix garden has been created by building raised planting areas with imported soil. In this way, the garden is able to use most of the site's topography, including boulders too large to move, as advantages rather than obstacles.
Colorful ideas for your spring garden 1. Be Creative in Problem solving: Jane Hendrix's method for repelling deer is 12 small radios installed around the perimeter of her one-and-half-acre property and playing the local soft rock station 24/7 from June through August. The deer seem to think people are outside working and stay away.	Colorful ideas for your spring garden 2. Be Generous in your Plantings: Last year, Hendrix planted more than 85 flats of pansies in her chosen color scheme for the year—it is in part generous plantings like this that give her garden such visual impact.

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