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a floral affair

t’s a mishmash,’ says contemporary floral stylist Willow Crossley of the Grade II-listed extended cottage she lives in with her family near Woodstock, Oxfordshire. ‘It’s very higgledy-piggledy and wonky. The walls and doors are anything but straight, but it has so much character.’ Dating back to the 16th century (‘you know, I’m not sure when exactly!’), the Cotswold stone building was enlarged and added to over time, culminating in

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