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    Everlasting beauty

    Oct 28, 2021 3 minutes

    DRIED FLOWERS AND foliage are everywhere at the moment. It’s their season, of course, but I’m not just talking about the herbaceous border you’ve yet to cut back or the leaves falling faster than you can rake them. Spent flora is being worked into bridal corsages, woven into festive wreaths, and wrestled into statement displays for modish restaurants and hotel lobbies.

    It even featured in this year’s delayed Chelsea Flower Show, adorning an

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