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—growing them, drying them, or arranging them.”'
Her husband, Hugh, said that he thought that the real spark that turned her interest in flowers into a full-fledged business was a gift she received from one of her children—a box of silica gel.
"Before the availability of silica gel we dried flowers with sand, or just hung them up to dry, or we found them already dry in the field.” Ches said. She explained that thick flowers like roses or chrysanthemums are very hard to dry successfully without the special silica solution. The Chrismans are able to offer customers an unusual selection of dried flowers by supplementing standard kinds that can be ordered with those that they grow in their large garden and those that they scavenge in fields and meadows. These activities, as well as the work of running the shop, keep the Chrismans busy all the time. For Hugh it is a second career. He is retired from the Naval Research Laboratory. For Ches, the House of Dried Flowers is a third or fourth career. Before raising
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