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A Garden of Sensory Delights

KAREN SPREITLER LOVES the architecture of her midcentury modern home, built in 1963. She refers to it as simple— but that might not be the word others would choose to describe the acre and a half of land surrounding the house, which straddles the border between Olivette and Creve Coeur.

In 2018, when Karen, a retired

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