5 Easy Steps to create a Holiday Wreath
Create beautiful, easy, and inexpensive holiday wreaths with the Southern Living® Plant Collection. Choose traditional Holly or mix and match flowers, foliage, and pruned branches to add color, texture, and depth. Use these Southern Living® Plant Collection favorites in your wreaths:
Fresh Evergreen Foliage: Prune fresh evergreen branches to surround the base of the wreath.
Dormant Branches: Prune the branches of dormant shrubs and trees to create the base. For a special surprise and kid’s craft, collect crapemyrtle bloom heads with remaining seed pods and paint them red, silver, or gold or cover with glue and shake in a bag of glitter!
Blooming Flowers and Berries: Yes, these shrubs are blooming flowers and berries that you can place in the front of the wreath for color and pop.
October Magic Inspiration Camellia
Ornamental Grasses: Use grass blades to wrap around fresh foliage and dormant branches or stick the grass blades strategically in the wreath for texture.
How to Create a Wreath
1. Select materials for the base of the wreath. You can purchase a Styrofoam or grapevine wreath base or build one yourself by wiring together two coat hangers and covering with floral tape or cutting and tying dormant branches.
2. Cut several branches with fresh evergreen foliage to cover the base of the wreath and plan to use shrubs with blooming flowers and berries, ornamental grasses, and the seed pods from crapemyrtles to add texture and color.
3. Secure the branches for the base of the wreath using lightweight floral wire or other material that is not too heavy and is easy to manipulate.
4. Once the base is covered, start adding in branches with flowers, berries, and other foliage to complete the look. Secure the decorative pieces with lightweight floral wire, string, or grass blades.
5. Keep your flowers and foliage fresh by placing wreaths away from the sun and heat and use floral foam bases or anti-desiccant spray to maintain moisture.
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