Small vibrant purple flowers cascade down the hillside near a rocky stream. Mildred Pinnell Fockele, vice president of horticulture and director of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Gainesville, gestured toward the water and flowering hillside. “You see something on paper and you can visualize it, but when it actually happens like it was supposed to it’s great,” Fockele said, smiling up at the landscape.
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