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EVERLASTING BLOOMS

Inspired by nature but with a whimsical, poetic twist – this is how Bex Partridge explains her craft of weaving the stems of her homegrown and dried flowers into magical installations and creations, including wreaths, everlasting bouquets and ‘garlands of joy’.

The half-acre garden of her rural home in Devon, where she lives with her husband Ed and sons Henry, 11, and Arlo, eight, is where she grows many of the flowers for her creations, with more nurtured for use in her everlasting displays in her allotment a couple of miles away.

‘Between the two spaces,

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