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Cooling temperatures cast the foliage with shades of wine before it fades to a pleasing straw color in dormancy.

The blossoms of both of these varieties age to a tawny straw color and persist for months, adding interesting detail and a structural element to the summer garden.

The hills lost their straw color and blackened under the water, and the winter streams scrambled noisily down the canyons.

But this season, all that could be seen was the straw color of dried-out stalks that never germinated amid Bolivia’s worst drought in 30 years.

“They’re traditionally a citrus, milk, spirit and sugars. Let it sit, then run it through cheese cloth and pull all of the curdled milk out and it starts clarifying to this beautiful golden straw color,” he says, noting that he likes to make milk punches with rum, citrus, vanilla, sugar, milk and some cloves.