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through the 80s, when it was owned by Tom and Ruth Pillar.
Some dryers specialize in certain flowers. Roses and peonies are precious and hard to dry. They are carefully saved for the most striking containers and the best arrangers. Some, like Gil Webb, have dried thousands and thousands of wild flowers, even waiting for the bittersweet to turn in October, and then bringing in garlands of it.
Some have worked for years like Louise Ellis, Lucy Oliver, and Judy Tole, some are just beginning the interesting task of learning how to preserve nature and keep it working for years, instead of just a season.
Work on the dried flowers is spread about the county, and not just among church members. Some, like Renata Chapman, grow flowers for others to cut and dry. Some lend their beech and laurel trees for cutting foliage. Many people drop off flowers at the church and never even ask for acknowledgment. When such unexpected treasures turn up, it inspires the arrangers to new and greater designs.
All in all, the dried flowers have provided many things to many people over the 50 years of their sale and show.
Monies for charity, good fellowship, community enhancement,
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