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    Letters to Wendy

    Jun 22, 2021 4 minutes

    Write to us: Letters, Amateur Gardening magazine, Future Publishing Limited, Unit 2, Eelmore Road, Farnborough, Hants GU14 7QN (please include your address). Email us: amateurgardening@futurenet.com

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    Decorating the house

    I WAS interested in reading the Letters from The Archives, circa 1926 (AG, 5 May)

    I managed to turn my garden into a small dried flowers business in the 1970-80s, growing dried flowers and grasses from seed and also drying flowers from my garden, including roses, peonies and delphiniums, which so many of us have done over the years, and which bring colour and joy over the dark winter months.

    This is from my ‘much smaller’ garden these days, but I

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