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Great Gardens: Colby Cottage Garden

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Published November 20, 2014 at 12:00 AM CST

In this final segment of our trip down the Great Gardens memory lane, we travel to Colby, Kansas to the garden of Beverly and Curt Eicher. The Eichers took a trip, and returned home wanting their own cottage garden.

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