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Above: A relaxing setting is framed by a window.
Left: The wall of the house doubles as an art
gallery and arbor.

self. "I dug down six inches, laid
concrete, put in reinforcing steel,
then another layer of concrete. I
bricked around it and put in corner
pieces from old park benches."
Beautiful beds of sweet
woodruff, herbs and trillium sur-
round it, as a does a redbud tree.
Beginning in mid-April, the for-
mer real estate professional plants

pots for other people, sharing her
love of beautiful growing things.
She also plans parties, from inti-
mate dinners at homes to lavish
weddings and bar mitzvahs.
"I love in-home dinner parties,"
she says. "I do the flowers, the
decorations. I go through some-
one's cupboards, because often
people do not use their things, and
I'll use them in some new way or
I'll bring my own things.
"I love to garden, I love to plan
parties and I love to set tables. I
took my hobbies and started a
business," laughs Linden. II

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