JamesWhitehead
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Sombre green: someone's dead. Baubles: xmas.
It was traditional in some families to place wreaths on graves, so that the dead could share in the season.
My mother certainly did it into the 1980s. I suppose they might have appreciated a libation more - a bottle of Bristol Cream, for instance - poured on the ground in the manner of the Greeks. Then it would have got all complicated with Auntie Gertie preferring advocaat and Auntie Phyllis a life-long abstainer . . .
The distinction between wreaths and garlands made by CuriousIdent is not one I recognize. Perhaps retailers now avoid the funereal association of the w-word? :adored:
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