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Everlasting blooms

Drying flowers is such a wonderful way to preserve garden blooms – or even a cherished bouquet – and enable you to display them in your home. While pressing flowers in a book or flower press is an age-old craft that has been practised for centuries, if you want to use them in an arrangement then they need to keep their shape.

As flowers naturally contain a lot of moisture, if not properly dried out, they will develop mould and eventually rot. Casting

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