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Most people can name four flowers and buy the same bunch forever. Draw one and look it up properly: when it blooms, what it needs, whether it will survive your particular patch of shade. Forty species spanning garden staples, wildflowers and the florist standards. Gardeners can use the draw for planting decisions and painters for a still-life subject; both end up with a better sense of the year's shape than any calendar gives them.
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More from Education, and a couple from elsewhere