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Like most everything in life, "Natural Companions" has evolved through the years. When I first started writing this column in 1999, I focused primarily on topics related to combining plants and watershapes and wrote a lot about surrounding hard structures with greenery in sensible and sustainable ways.  As the New Year approaches, I've been thinking about how things have changed with the column and where it's now heading.   I distinctly recall having the sense about four years ago that