Happy dahlia

Choosing a Christmas table centrepiece is easy when you live down under – the abundance of flowers and summer foliage is out of control! At Milly Van Der Hoeven’s Waikato flower farm, dahlias are the order of the day as “there is such a wide variety of forms and colours to play with”. See Milly’s floral family Christmas over the page.

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