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and others are always ready with advice and lessons. Many flowers have unique needs for drying—wildflowers are not always as tough as they seem. Foliage such as beech, magnolia and boxwood requires special treatment. Teasel can be bleached and cattails can be dipped in shellac to stabilize their looks. The secrets of drying with sand, silica gel or microwave are happily shared.
Not everyone plants flowers for drying in garden rows. Many brave snakes, wasps, yellow jackets and other of nature’s varmints to gamer from roadside and meadow.
But all are enriched by participating in the natural beauty of the physical world by assisting in the preparation for the flower arrangements or the House Tbur and by being part of the seasons, one way or the other, in Rappahannock County.
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