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Growing feel good flowers

For years, when I would go and stay with my dad on Great Barrier Island, I would arrive to a freshly cleaned house with jasmine, freesias or wildflowers packed into vases in every room. Their scents filled the house, and those smells will forever take me back there.

As humans, we are naturally drawn to beauty, colour and scent. It’s not so much a logical pull but an instinctual, emotional one.

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