title: All the Garden's a Stage: Choosing the Best Performing Plants for a Sustainable Garden
author:  Jane C. Gates 
description: Jane Gates is a writer, artist, garden designer, and landscape contractor. She has worked as a horticulturalist in nurseries and garden shops, has designed sets and costumes for theater, and has shown her paintings in galleries and museums all over the world.
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