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He said his focus then was on showy drought-tolerant plants like statice and Pride of Madeira, a fast-growing perennial with giant purple blooms native to the Portuguese island of Madeira.

In one photo, Ms. Johnson wears a crown of roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, frilly tulips, statice and baby’s breath.

The Queen carried a nosegay at the service made up of daffodils, primroses, stocks, purple statice, freesias, rosemary and thyme with ivy leafs.

The all but bare ground is rusted with streaks of some reddish plant, and dabbed here and there with statice, a dreary little white everlasting.

He plucked the statice flowers from the ground instead of chopping them, requiring Carranza to constantly bend over.