Chrysanthemums have an image problem in this country. In China and Japan,
where they have been cultivated for 3,000 years, they are revered, but here
we have suffered an overload of those year-round, cellophane-wrapped,
yellow-centred cut flowers in buckets on petrol-station forecourts. They
last well in a vase, but they are stiff and rather soulless, and can be hard
to arrange.
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