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    365 days of flowers

    Aug 26, 2019 5 minutes
    PHOTOS MARIE VILJOEN

    Walking out into your garden and returning with fresh cut flowers is one of life’s simplest and most pure pleasures. Have you ever noticed that a room without blooms – or something living and green – seems lifeless? Graced with living flowers, it breathes again. Even a few spring pansies or summer nasturtiums in an egg cup will make life seem better.

    Every season has its particular floral markers, and with a little planning it is possible to watch the passage of time by noticing and enjoying what is in bloom right outside your door.

    The three secrets

    1 DIVERSITY If there is a secret to a garden that overflows with flowers for most of the year, it is diversity. (This may be a life secret, too!) Plant with imagination, envisioning not only the current season but also the

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