Native shrubs and bushes surround a grassy amphitheater outside the Experience Center at Stoller Family Estate, where Corinne Gosnell pauses to watch a brightly colored swallowtail butterfly flutter gently among the flowers.
Gosnell, the winery’s head gardener, describes this area as a “perennial jeweled ring,” decorated with plants that blossom for 10 months out of the year.
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